Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology

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Table of Contents; Introduction; To Human Is a Verb; Approaching Philosophical Anthropology: Human, the Responsive Being; Situated Agency: A Postfoundational Alternative to Autonomy; Notes on Life and Human Nature; Ethnography, History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology; A Degenerate Case of Action; The Alzheimer Enigma in an Ageing World; Individuality, Identity and Supplementarity in Transcorporeal Embodiment; The Loneliness of the Liberal Individual; The Dual Nature of the Modern Individual; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.;The Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research (BSKR) series aims to foster systematic research into the variety of forms of knowledge as well as to uncover aspects of their underlying unity. The conception of the discipline of epistemology it seeks to promote is a generous-one which encompasses a study of the full variety of forms, practices and dynamics of knowledge, as well as their mutually interacting points of contact and their respective mechanisms of interpenetration. It seeks thereby to bring about a reorientation of the discipline of epistemology, undoing artificial restrictions in its sco. Table of Contents Introduction To Human Is a Verb Approaching Philosophical Anthropology: Human, the Responsive Being Situated Agency: A Postfoundational Alternative to Autonomy Notes on Life and Human Nature Ethnography, History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology A Degenerate Case of Action The Alzheimer Enigma in an Ageing World Individuality, Identity and Supplementarity in Transcorporeal Embodiment The Loneliness of the Liberal Individual The Dual Nature of the Modern Individual Index of Names Index of Subjects.