Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science

From Bodily Intersubjectivity to Symbolic Articulation

Edited by: Roman Madzia and Matthias Jung

Volume 14 in the series Humanprojekt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110480238

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About this book

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.

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Roman Madzia and Matthias Jung, University of Koblenz.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: What a Pragmatist Cognitive Science Is and What It Should Be Roman Madzia and Matthias Jung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Pragmatism as a Philosophical Foundation of Cognitive Science
Pragmatic Interventions into Enactive and Extended Conceptions of Cognition Shaun Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Pragmatism, Embodiment, and Extension Joshua A. Skorburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Extended Cognition Anthony Chemero and Stephan Käufer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Embodied Cognitive Science, Pragmatism, and the Fate of Mental Representation Pierre Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Part II: Embedding Embodied Cognitive Science: A Larger Picture
Pragmatism, Cognitive Science, and Embodied Mind Mark Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Why It’s Better Be Pragmatism: Assembling Some Philosophical Foundations for Future Cognitive Science Erkki Kilpinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Recovering Philosophy from Cognitive Science Tibor Solymosi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Embodied “We”: The Extended Mind as Cognitive Sociology Teed Rockwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Sympathy and Empathy: G. H. Mead and the Pragmatist Basis of (Neuro)economics Guido Baggio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Part III: The Pragmatists as Pioneers of Situated Cognition: Embodied Language, Reasoning, and Feeling
Mind, Symbol and Action-Prediction: George H. Mead and the Embodied Roots of Language Roman Madzia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Dewey, Enactivism, and Greek Thought Matthew Crippen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Peirce on Abduction and Embodiment Tullio Viola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
William James and John Dewey on Embodied Action-Oriented Emotions Rebekka Hufendiek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Feeling as the Force Dynamics of Thought. The Role of Feeling in the Jamesian Stream of Thought Ling Zhu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index of persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Libraries, institutes, scholars (Philosophy of mind; history of philosophy/modernity; epistemology)
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 306
Keywords: Intersubjectivity; cognitive sciences; embodiment; Pragmatism

eBook

Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110480238

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110478891