Health, consciousness, and the evolution of subjects

Walter Veit

doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03998-z

Health, consciousness, and the evolution of subjects

Walter Veit

Department of Philosophy

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Abstract

The goal of this programmatic paper is to highlight a close connection between the core problem in the philosophy of medicine, i.e. the concept of health, and the core problem of the philosophy of mind, i.e. the concept of consciousness. I show when we look at these phenomena together, taking the evolutionary perspective of modern state-based behavioural and life-history theory used as the teleonomic tool to Darwinize the agent- and subject-side of organisms, we will be in a better position to make sense of them both as natural phenomena.

Original language	English
Article number	3
Journal	Synthese
Volume	201
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03998-z
Publication status	Published - 19 Dec 2022

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This paper is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant No. 101018533) and was supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number FL170100160).

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