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Jan Slaby

2 papers in the library · 12 citations · publishing 2024

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Political philosophy of mind: inverting the concepts, expanding the niche

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences December 18, 2024 Sofia Tzima, Jan Slaby

This text maps out a territory for political philosophy of mind, with emphasis on habit, affect and an expanded notion of the social niche. We first survey the historical development of classic philosophy of mind towards the articulation of political philosophy of mind and discuss further influences for the field. We then outline commitments to relationality, dynamism, and emergence, to adopt a...

Habits of affluence: unfeeling, enactivism and the ecological crisis of capitalism

Mind & Society August 14, 2024 Jan Slaby 12 citations

In this text, I discuss the role that a range of habits in affluent societies play in upholding as well as masking an unsustainable status quo. I show that enactivism, as a philosophical approach to the embodied and embedded mind, offers resources for bringing into focus and critically interrogating such habits of affluence and the environments enabling them. I do this in the context of a...