Ecology of the Brain The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind

Thomas Fuchs, Psychiatric Clinic, University of Heidelberg, Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry

Thomas Fuchs, MD, PhD, is Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Heidelberg University, Germany. His main areas of expertise include phenomenological philosophy and psychopathology as well as embodied and enactive cognitive science, with a particular emphasis on non-representational, interactive concepts of social cognition. He was Coordinator and Principal Investigator of several large national and international grants, among them the European Research Training Network Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity (TESIS, 2011-2016). He has authored over 300 journal articles, book chapters and several books. He is also co-editor of Psychopathology and editorial board member of 4 scientific journals.

Introduction
Part One: Criticism of Neurobiological Reductionism
1. Cosmos in the Head?
2. The Brain as the Subject's Heir?
Part Two: Body, Person, and the Brain
3. Foundations: Subjectivity and Life
4. The Brain as Organ of the Living Being
5. The Brain as Organ of the Person
6. The Concept of Dual Aspectivity
7. Implications for Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
8. Conclusion