Publisher's Synopsis
Volume IV focuses on the life sciences, whose object of research is life itself, that which (necessarily) mediates between the physical and the psyche. Typical philosophical questions in this context include: What is "life" in the sense of the term relevant to the life sciences? How do we know that life has not "always existed" but must have arisen in the course of abiogenesis from inanimate nature? And how is it possible to know something about how evolution has occurred? Finally, the methodological foundations of neuroscience and its limitations as a contribution to philosophy of mind are explored, which as such will have its say in Volume VI.
