Embodiment in Evolution and Culture.
From its beginnings, the theory of evolution has unsettled fundamental anthropological assumptions about the place of human beings in nature. The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered by the philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century. Their attempts were...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Gregor Etzelmüller/ Christian Tewes: Introduction; 1. Current Research on Embodied Cognition; 2. Evolutionary Continuity and Discontinuity; 3. Evolutionary Specificities of the Human Body; 4. Aims and Structure of the Volume; Bibliography; 1. Philosophical Concepts and Perspectives of Embodiment; Christian Tewes: Introduction; Bibliography; Mog Stapleton: Leaky Levels and the Case for Proper Embodiment; 1. Orthodox Embodied Cognitive Science; 2. Introducing Proper Embodiment; 3. Internal Embodiment; 4. Particular Embodiment; 5. GasNets.
- 6. Evolved Hardware7. The Case for Proper Embodiment; Bibliography; Christian Tewes: Embodied Habitual Memory Formation: Enacted or Extended?; Introduction; 1. The Extension of the Mind: Basic Principles and Assumptions; 1.1 The Parity Principle and Extended Functionalism; 1.2 The Realization of Memory as a Challenge to PP; 1.3 Second-Wave EM and the Complementary Principle; 2. Enactivism, Incorporation and Extension; 2.1 Autonomy, Identity and Sense-Making; 2.2 Non-Locality and Unified Autonomous Systems; 2.3 Phenomenological Considerations and Cognitive Scaffolding.
- 3. Embodied Habitual Memory Formation3.1 Embodied Memories and the Emergence of Inter-Bodily Habitual Memory Systems; 3.2 Distributed Memory Research; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Karim Zahidi/ Erik Myin: Radically Enactive Numerical Cognition; Introduction; 1. Basic Minds without Content: The REC View; 2. RECkoning; 3. The "Number Sense" Revisited; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Christian Spahn: Beyond Dualism? The Implications of Evolutionary Theory for an Anthropological Determination of Human Being.
- Introduction: Are There Good Reasons for a "Bad Dualism" of Humans and Nature?1. The Dualistic Playing Field before Embodiment: Pre-Darwinian Ethical Optimism and Darwinian Naturalistic Pessimism; 2. Hyper Intellectualism (and Hyper Physicalism) in Recent Philosophy and the Turn to Embodiment Theory; 3. The Body is not merely a Body: Thompson's Philosophy of the Organism; 4. Thinking is not merely in the Brain: Why the Brain cannot be in a Vat; 5. Are we Beyond Dualism yet?; Bibliography; 2. The Embodied Evolution of Symbolic Competence; Magnus Schlette: Introduction; Bibliography.
- Thomas Fuchs: The Embodied Development of LanguageIntroduction; 1. Language, Embodiment, and the Brain; The Body as the Medium of Language; Neurobiological Findings; 2. The Embodied Development of Language; Primary Intersubjectivity; Secondary Intersubjectivity(; (a) Joint Attention and the Pointing Gesture; (b) Other Gestures; (c) The Development of Language; Neurobiological Foundations; Bibliography; Summary and Conclusion; Terrence Deacon: On Human (Symbolic) Nature: How the Word Became Flesh; Introduction; 1. Symbols Oversimplified; 2. How the Disembodied Became Embodied.