Pragmatism and embodied cognitive science : from bodily intersubjectivity to symbolic articulation / edited by Roman Madzia and Matthias Jung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Madzia, Roman, 1984- editor.

Series:

Humanprojekt (Series) ; Band 14.

HUMANPROJEKT : Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie, 1868-8144 ; Band 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Philosophy of mind.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book endeavors to fill the conceptual gap in theorizing about embodied cognition. The theories of mind and cognition which one could generally call "situated" or "embodied cognition" have gained much attention in the recent decades. However, it has been mostly phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, etc.), which has served as a philosophical background for their research program. The main goal of this book is to bring the philosophy of classical American pragmatism firmly into play. Although pragmatism has been arguably the first intellectual current which systematically built its theories of knowledge, mind and valuation upon the model of a bodily interaction between an organism and its environment, as the editors and authors argue, it has not been given sufficient attention in the debate and, consequently, its conceptual resources for enriching the embodied mind project are far from being exhausted. In this book, the authors propose concrete subject-areas in which the philosophy of pragmatism can be of help when dealing with particular problems the philosophy of the embodied mind nowadays faces - a prominent example being the inevitable tension between bodily situatedness and the potential universality of symbolic meaning.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: What a Pragmatist Cognitive Science Is and What It Should Be

Pragmatic Interventions into Enactive and Extended Conceptions of Cognition

Pragmatism, Embodiment, and Extension

Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Extended Cognition

Embodied Cognitive Science, Pragmatism, and the Fate of Mental Representation

Pragmatism, Cognitive Science, and Embodied Mind

Why It’s Better Be Pragmatism: Assembling Some Philosophical Foundations for Future Cognitive Science

Recovering Philosophy from Cognitive Science

The Embodied “We”: The Extended Mind as Cognitive Sociology

Sympathy and Empathy: G. H. Mead and the Pragmatist Basis of (Neuro)economics

Mind, Symbol and Action-Prediction: George H. Mead and the Embodied Roots of Language

Dewey, Enactivism, and Greek Thought

Peirce on Abduction and Embodiment

William James and John Dewey on Embodied Action-Oriented Emotions

Feeling as the Force Dynamics of Thought. The Role of Feeling in the Jamesian Stream of Thought

Index of persons

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110478938

3110478935

9783110480238

3110480239

OCLC:

961063825