Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science : : From Bodily Intersubjectivity to Symbolic Articulation / / ed. by Roman Madzia, Matthias Jung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Baggio, Guido,; Chemero, Anthony,; Crippen, Matthew,; Gallagher, Shaun,; Hufendiek, Rebekka,; Johnson, Mark,; Jung, Matthias,; Kilpinen, Erkki,; Käufer, Stephan,; Madzia, Roman,; Rockwell, Teed,; Skorburg, Joshua A.,; Solymosi, Tibor,; Steiner, Pierre,; Viola, Tullio,; Zhu, Ling,
• HerausgeberIn: Jung, Matthias,; Madzia, Roman,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Humanprojekt : Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 306 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What a Pragmatist Cognitive Science Is and What It Should Be -- Part I: Pragmatism as a Philosophical Foundation of Cognitive Science -- 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 -- Part II: Embedding Embodied Cognitive Science: A Larger Picture -- 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 -- 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 -- 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