Jessica Wahman is visiting associate professor of philosophy at Emory University’s Oxford College.

Jessica Wahman has organized a sophisticated and well-written Santayanan counterattack. Her aim is to show that Santayana’s naturalism is suited to contribute to current debates over reductionism and the philosophy of mind. Wahman rejects mechanism and physicalism as philosophical misinterpretations of the natural sciences. She employs careful arguments in epistemology and neuroscience to display Santayana’s scheme as an alternative to both reductive physicalism and emergence. . . .[T]his volume rights a wrong within the contemporary American tradition: the neglect of one of its most provocative early naturalists and his rightful impact on current debate.

• 1. Narrative2. The Physicalist Trap3. Naturalism4. The Essence(S) Of the Matter5. Why Psyche Matters6. Expressive Truth7. Irreducible Spirit8. Some Uses Of This Discovery

Jessica Wahman is visiting associate professor of philosophy at Emory University’s Oxford College.

Jessica Wahman has organized a sophisticated and well-written Santayanan counterattack. Her aim is to show that Santayana’s naturalism is suited to contribute to current debates over reductionism and the philosophy of mind. Wahman rejects mechanism and physicalism as philosophical misinterpretations of the natural sciences. She employs careful arguments in epistemology and neuroscience to display Santayana’s scheme as an alternative to both reductive physicalism and emergence. . . .[T]his volume rights a wrong within the contemporary American tradition: the neglect of one of its most provocative early naturalists and his rightful impact on current debate.

• 1. Narrative2. The Physicalist Trap3. Naturalism4. The Essence(S) Of the Matter5. Why Psyche Matters6. Expressive Truth7. Irreducible Spirit8. Some Uses Of This Discovery