Mind in Action
Experience and Embodied Cognition in Pragmatism
Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; 18;
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- Edition number 2015
- Publisher Springer International Publishing
- Date of Publication 21 April 2015
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783319176222
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages94 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XII, 94 p. 1 illus. Illustrations, black & white 0
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The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external. This leads to revised notions of the structure of experience and the object of knowledge. Our world is experienced as possibilities of action, and to know is to know what to do. A further consequence is that the mind is best considered as a property of organisms’ interactions with their environment. The unit of analysis is the loop of action and perception, and the central concept is the notion of habit of action, which provides the embodied basis of cognition as the anticipation of action. This holds for non-linguistic tacit meanings as well as for linguistic meanings. Habit of action is a teleological notion and thus opens a possibility for defining intentionality and normativity in terms of the soft naturalism adopted in the book. The mind is embodied, and this embodiment determines our physical perspective on the world. Our sensory organs and other instruments give us instrumental access to the world, and this access is epistemic in character. The distinction between the physical and conceptual viewpoint allows us to define truth as the correspondence with operational fit. This embodied epistemic truth is however not a sign of antirealism, as the instrumentally accessed theoretical objects are precisely those objects that experimental science deals with.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction: Challenging Classical Dichotomies.- Philosophical Naturalism.- Experience and the Object of Knowledge.- Habit of Action.- Habits as Meanings.- Mind and Interaction .- Facts and Values in Pragmatism.- Mind in Action and the Problem of Realism.
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