Insides and Outsides

<p><em>Insides and Outsides</em> brings together diverse aspects of animate nature diverse not only in terms of animate nature itself but in terms of areas of study. Indeed the book lives up to the word "interdisciplinary" in its title. It brings together diverse academic perspectives within each chapter and across chapters showing in each instance that scientific understandings of animate nature are — or can be — complementary to philosophical understandings. Thus insides and outsides typically viewed as subjective vs. objective mind vs. body and self vs. other are shown to be woven together in complex and subtle ways in the complexities and subtleties of animate life itself.</p>