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Abstract
According to a major trend in Hegel scholarship, Hegel advocates a McDowell-style transformativist conception of the human mind. Central to this conception is a methodological dualism, according to which phenomena belonging to the rational mind, in contrast to those belonging to non-rational nature, must be accounted for from within the 'space of reasons.' In this paper I argue, by contrast, that Hegel rejects methodological dualism. For Hegel, a constitutive aspect of the rational mind is the activity of expression. I show how Hegel's philosophy of mind adequately accounts for low-level forms of expressivity without appealing to capacities connected to conceptual thought and judgment, and that he does so by drawing on methods similar to those employed within the empirical sciences of his time. Thus, for Hegel, the sphere of the rational mind is broader than the McDowellian space of reasons.

"Gray Matters is a thorough examination of the main topics in recent philosophy of mind. It aims at surveying a broad range of issues, not all of which can be subsumed under one position or one philosopher's theory. In this way, the authors avoid neglecting interesting issues out of allegiance to a given theory of mind."--Jacket

Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University, 6 Makarova Embankment, 199034, St. Petersburg Email albertwanderer@gmail.com Modern philosophy of mind, in collaboration with cognitive science, tries to clarify both hard and easy problems of consciousness. The analytical philosophy here provides two opportunities. On the one hand, for cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind, these problems seem to be solved, while, on the other hand, these solutions do not satisfy some other researchers. In this article, the author tries to discuss problems caused by these solutions and argues why the problems of consciousness cannot be solved without a systematic philosophical approach using some findings from the continental philosophy, especially Kantian transcendental philosophy, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology. In combination with findings from science and analytical philosophy, the examined ideas would help researchers to develop more consistent knowledge of mind and consciousness.

i.Dedication -- ii. Acknowledgement -- iii. Preface -- Part One: Conversations on Mind, Body and Consciousness -- 1. James Tartaglia – Gyekye's Idealist Theory of the Soul -- 2. Oladele Balogun – A Central State Materialistic Interpretation Of The Yoruba Concept Of Person: A Critique -- 3. Elvis Imafidon - Between The Demon And The Tumour: Exploring Mental Cognitive Processes And Healing As If Context Mattered -- 4. Ada Agada - The Concept Of Vital Force, Protopanpsychism, And The Mind-Body Problem -- 5. Emmanuel Ofuasia - On Human Consciousness And Cognition Of The Actual World: A Case For Skepticism -- 6. Laura Crompton - Extended Mind, Extended Agency? -- 7. Khondlo Mtshali - Dualism Without The Problem of Interaction -- 8. Clarton Fambisai - A Novel Reply to Jackson's Knowledge Argument -- 9. Kenneth Uyi Abudu - A Critique Of Central State Materialism From An African Perspective -- 10. Aribiah Attoe – The Hard Problem of Consciousness: A Proto-phenomenal Outlook -- 11. Samuel Segun – Questioning the Validity of Equiphenomenalism as a Functionalist Theory -- 12. Nelson Osuala - Interrogating the Reasonability of Equiphenomenalism as an Explanatory Theory of Mind: A Conversation with Segun T. Samuel -- 13. Victor Nweke - The Emergence of Proto-mind and its Import for Ubuntu -- 14. Solomon Awe - Rethinking The Metaphysical Issues Of Reincarnation In Yoruba Culture: A Further Reflections On Mind-Body Dichotomy -- 15. Enyimba Maduka - Epistemological Implication Of Chimakonam's Theory Of Sense-Phenomenalism -- 16. John Patrick Giddy - African Traditional Philosophy Of Mind And World: A Framework For The Ethical Potential Of Modern Thought -- Part Two: Conversations on Africa and some Major Themes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 17. Samuel Segun – Making Afro-ethics Computational -- 18. Ojochogwu Abdul - Transhumanism, Singularity And The Meaning Of Life: An Afrofuturist Perspective -- 19. Aribiah Attoe & Amara Esther - Transhumanism, Immortality and the Communal Normative Function Theory of the Meaning of Life -- 20. Thaddeus Metz - African Reasons Why AI Should Not Maximize Utility -- 21. Diana Ofana - Can Robots Attain Personhood In African Thought? -- 22. Hailu Andebet - Robotics And The African Man -- 23. John Umezurike - The Concept of AI and Personhood in African Thought Systems -- 24. Augustine Atabor - Affective Computing And The Singularity: The Moral Relevance Of Shame In AI -- 25. Reneilwe Masuluke & Abiola Azeez – On Indigenous Design and Consumerism: 4IR in Africa -- 26. Joseph Hungwe - My Phone And The Community: Nomophobia As A Technological Reconfiguration Of African Communalism.

Quintessence of Dust' by Harry Redner argues for a science of matter and a philosophy of mind based on emergence. Mind emerges from matter through five essential stages - "quintessence" (Hamlet). Human mind is differentiated from animal mind primarily by reference to art (Homo ludens). This approach draws support from Donald, Edelman and other palaeoanthropologists, psychologists and neurologists. 0The emergent relation between two entities is defined as an indissoluble non-identity. The "mind as machine" thesis, artificial intelligence and cognitivism are criticised. The alternative emergentist approach comes close to Spinoza. The book attempts a synthesis of the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities based on philosophic premises