- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Introduction: The Interplay of Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
-
1 Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Embodiment -
2 We Are, Therefore I Am—I Am, Therefore We Are: The Third in Sartre’s Social Ontology -
3 Consciousness, Culture, and Significance -
4 Neither Individualistic nor Interactionist -
5 Continuity Skepticism in Doubt: A Radically Enactive Take -
6 The Primacy of the “We”? -
7 Selfhood, Schizophrenia, and the Interpersonal Regulation of Experience -
8 The Touched Self: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives on Proximal Intersubjectivity and the Self -
9 Thin, Thinner, Thinnest: Defining the Minimal Self -
10 The Emergence of Persons -
11 The Significance and Meaning of Others -
12 Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You -
13 The Extent of Our Abilities: The Presence, Salience, and Sociality of Affordances -
14 The Role of Affordances in Pretend Play -
15 Ornamental Feathers without Mentalism: A Radical Enactive View on Neanderthal Body Adornment -
16 Neoteny and Social Cognition: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Embodiment -
17 Collective Body Memories -
18 Movies and the Mind: On Our Filmic Body -
19 Painful Bodies at Work: Stress and Culture? -
20 Embodiment and Enactment in Cultural Psychiatry - Contributors
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Introduction: The Interplay of Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
Introduction: The Interplay of Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
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- (p.1) Introduction: The Interplay of Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
- Source:
- Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
- Author(s):
Christian Tewes
Christoph Durt
Thomas Fuchs
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
While traditional theories of cognition tend to conceive of mental capacities as disembodied or merely supervenient on brain states, in recent decades the insight has spread that mental processes cannot be confined to activities inside the skull alone. The paradigm of enactive embodiment endeavors to overcome the limitations of traditional cognitive science by reconceiving the cognizer as an embodied being and cognition as enactive. According to a well-known early definition, cognition depends on “the kinds of experience that come from having a body with various sensorimotor capacities” (...
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Introduction: The Interplay of Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
-
1 Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Embodiment -
2 We Are, Therefore I Am—I Am, Therefore We Are: The Third in Sartre’s Social Ontology -
3 Consciousness, Culture, and Significance -
4 Neither Individualistic nor Interactionist -
5 Continuity Skepticism in Doubt: A Radically Enactive Take -
6 The Primacy of the “We”? -
7 Selfhood, Schizophrenia, and the Interpersonal Regulation of Experience -
8 The Touched Self: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives on Proximal Intersubjectivity and the Self -
9 Thin, Thinner, Thinnest: Defining the Minimal Self -
10 The Emergence of Persons -
11 The Significance and Meaning of Others -
12 Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You -
13 The Extent of Our Abilities: The Presence, Salience, and Sociality of Affordances -
14 The Role of Affordances in Pretend Play -
15 Ornamental Feathers without Mentalism: A Radical Enactive View on Neanderthal Body Adornment -
16 Neoteny and Social Cognition: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Embodiment -
17 Collective Body Memories -
18 Movies and the Mind: On Our Filmic Body -
19 Painful Bodies at Work: Stress and Culture? -
20 Embodiment and Enactment in Cultural Psychiatry - Contributors
- Name Index
- Subject Index
