A szellem a gépben és az átlelkesített test
The Ghost in the Machine and the Animated Body

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I examine the contemporary possibilities of crosstalk between phenomenology and analytical philosophy. In a wider context,the debate between analytical and continental philosophy will be reconsidered, especially focusing on the relation between Ryle and Husserl. The main goal of the paper is to answer the question whether the conceptions of embodied mind and embodied self are able to eliminate the doctrine of the “ghost in the machine”. The interdisciplinary dialogues concerning the phenomenal body are not only aimed at overcoming Cartesian dualism, but also at solving epistemological questions. However, the body-phenomenological turn in the philosophy of mind sheds light on the wider horizons of the unsettled relationship between naturalism and phenomenology, which is also one of the central themes of this paper. According to my conclusions, the result of the contemporary interdisciplinary dialogues may lead to the development of a new concept of the phenomenological unconscious, which is already lurking within the dialogues of body-phenomenology and prereflective awareness.

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