The challenge presented by the recent tendencies to "naturalize" phenomenology, on the basis of the progress in biological and neurological sciences, calls for an investigation of the traditional mind-body problem. The progress in phenomenological investigation is up to answering that challenge by placing the issues at stake upon a novel platform, that is the ontopoiesis of life.

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Spheres of the Human Soul.- Phenomenological Hyletics: The Animal, The Human, The Divine.- Passivity and Fundamental Life's Experience in Michel Henry's Thought.- Alterity, Art, and the Language of the Soul.- Ontopoiesis and Spiritual Emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka's Phenomenology of Life and Transpersonal Psychology.- The Theory of the Passions in the Sermons of Antônio Vieira S.J. (16081697): A Phenomenological Reading.- Phenomenology: The Return to the Living Soul.- The Transpersonal Psycho-Phenomenology of Self & Soul: Meditators and Multiples speak.- Science as the Human Phenomenon.- Science and the Human Phenomenon: Markings From a Cosmic Orphan.- Consciousness in the Perspective of Evolution.- The Constitution of Biological Objects of Inquiry from the Viewpoint of Hermeneutic Phenomenology.- Biological Function Without Natural Design.- Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Phenomenology in the Organization of Interdisciplinary Researches.- Mind/Body Revisited.- Soul and Body in the Phenomenological Context.- Epistemological Questions Concerning the In-Depth Body and the Coming about of the Ego.- E. Husserl's Phenomenology on the Universal Life of Consciousness in Reflection and in Time.- Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology and the Mind-Body Problem.- Origins of Consciousness and Conscious (Free) Intention from the Viewpoint of Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Science (Anthroposophy) in Relation to Husserl's Transcendental Reduction.- The Concept of Human Soul/Mind in the Light of the Evolutionist Theory of Knowledge: Scientific Epistemological Aspects and Metaphysical Implications.- The Role of Human Empathy in Communication.- The Meaning of Empathic Understanding in Human Inquiry.- Scientific Analysis of the Body and the Interaction of Minds.-To Communicate with a Gnat: Experience and Communication Within the Context of Life-World.- Albert Camus: The Awareness of Extraneousness.- The Human Self.- Descartes, Hume, Kant and Diderot: The Interconnectedness of the Self and Nature.- To dive back in the flux of life: William James's critique of intellectualism.- The Social Construction of the Self: Contribution of Social Phenomenology.- The Category of the (Non-)Temporal ?now? In Philosophy of the 'Late' Husserl.- Ingmar Bergman's Projected Self: From W. A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte to Vargtimmen.- Mind, Language, World.- On the Interface Between Minds and Concepts.- Mind and Ontology. Ingarden's Phenomenology and Mahayana Philosophy as Opposed Ways of Approach to Reality.- Deconstruction of the Logocenter of all Grounds Constructed by Language Habits Language-Game the Surroundings of which is Everywhere, the Center of which is Nowhere.- Symbolical forms and their role in an anthropological analysis. Ernst Cassirer's conception of the human world.- The positionalist notion of human nature in Plessner's and Gehlen's philosophy.