The author makes collide the oddities of academic thinking with philosophical analysis of soul-body interrelation problem traced back to philosophical classics, justifying the necessity of methodological reflexivity of any form of scientific activities. This approach excludes noncritical attitude towards research material and methods and requires cognitive work understanding in the scope of historically developing principles of thinking. Based on the analysis of the mentioned problem, the author — through the lens of criticism — analyses the oddities of academic mind. Obviously positivistic attitude of this kind of mind, engrained in science, presents such pictures of thinking that classical vision feels embarrassed; some elements of this article’s stylistics are due to that.
The brainlessness and the brain
Written by G. V. Lobastov
Keywords: Method, dialectic, truth, brain, thinking, organ and function, part and whole, soul and body, human psyche, identity, contradiction.
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