Bodily Constitution and Human Longevity

Human cloning and the Constitution.

Actuality and possibility: On the complementarity of two registers in the bodily constitution of experience

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of the concept of possibility, and not merely that of actuality, for an inquiry into the bodily constitution of experience. The paper will study how the possibilities of action that may (or may not) be available to the subject help to shape the meaning attributed to perceived objects and to the situation occupied by the subject within h...

Grounding Aesthetic Preference in the Bodily Conditions of Meaning Constitution Towards an Enactive Approach

a bstr act Mark Johnson’s work The Meaning of the Body presents John Dewey’s pragmatism and pragmatist aesthetics as the forerunners of the anti­ Cartesian embodied enactive approach to human experience and meaning. He rejects the Kantian noncognitive character of aesthetics and emphasizes that aesthetics is the study of the human capacity to experience the bodily conditions of meaning constitu...

Crime and the Constitution Human: A Survey

Telomeres, Atherosclerosis, and Human Longevity

Human telomere length, as expressed in leukocytes, is strongly fashioned by heritability. A number of genes that explain some of the inter-individual variation in leukocyte telomere length have already been identified. Leukocyte telomere length is longer in women than in men and in African Americans than in whites of european descent. in addition, offspring of older fathers display a longer leu...