- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Introduction: The Interplay of Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
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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
The Emergence of Persons
The Emergence of Persons
- Chapter:
- (p.201) 10 The Emergence of Persons
- Source:
- Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
- Author(s):
Mark H. Bickhard
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
I will present a model of persons as emergent forms of socio-cultural agency. Such a model requires a framework metaphysics that makes sense of the normative dynamic emergence of agents, which, in turn requires a metaphysics of process. I will also briefly address how this model of persons as interactive agents relates to persons as moral agents.
Keywords: Process, Emergence, Function, Representation, Encodingism, Social ontology, Language, Persons, Ethics
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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
