Overcoming parallelism: Naturalizing phenomenology with goldstein and Merleau-Ponty.
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology December 1, 2015 Patrick M Whitehead 13 citations
A philosophical argument that biology and phenomenology can collaborate to study the body, despite their traditional divide between the corporeal body (Körper) and the lived body (Leib). The paper identifies two obstacles: Husserl's anti-naturalism, which rejects biological accounts of the body, and the parallelism problem, which treats Körper and Leib as separate entities. Drawing on Kurt Goldstein's biological work and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological references to it, the author argues that Husserl's anti-naturalism is no longer necessary and that Körper and Leib are not two bodies but two ways of recognizing one body. This dissolves the parallelism problem and supports interdisciplinary collaboration.