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The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account for the more uniquely human aspects of cognition, including the abstract and the nonsensical.
List of contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword to Making Sense of Non-Sense; Ezequiel A. Di Paolo 1. Introduction to Making Sense of Non-Sense; Massimiliano Cappuccio and Tom Froese PART I: THEORY AND METHOD 2. Breaking the Perception-Action Cycle: Experimental Phenomenology of Non-Sense and its Implications for Theories of Perception and Movement Science ; Dobromir G. Dotov and Anthony Chemero 3. Making Sense of Non-Sense in Physics: The Quantum Koan; Michel Bitbol 4. The Plight of the Sense-Making Ape; David A. Leavens 5. Immune Self and Non-Sense; John Stewart PART II: EXPERIENCE AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 6. The Surprise of Non-Sense; Natalie Depraz 7. Learning to Perceive What we do not yet Understand: Letting the World Guide us; Michael Beaton 8. No Non-Sense Without Imagination: Schizophrenic Delusion as Reified Imaginings Unchallengeable by Perception; Daria Dibitonto PART III: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 9. On Being Mindful About Misunderstandings in Languaging: Making Sense of Non-Sense as the Way to Sharing Linguistic Meaning; Elena Clare Cuffari 10. Deleuze and the Enaction of Non-sense; William Michael Short, Wilson H. Shearin and Alistair Welchman 11. Traditional Shamanism as Embodied Expertise on Sense and Non-Sense; Juan C. González 12. Making (Non)sense of Gender; Michele Merritt Index
About the author
Michael Beaton, University of the Basque Country, Spain Michel Bitbol, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati, USA Elena Clare Cuffari, University of the Basque Country, Spain Natalie Depraz, University of Rouen (ERIAC), France Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, the Basque Science Foundation, Spain Daria Dibitonto, Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Dobromir Dotov, Université Montpellier-1, France Juan C. González, Morelos State University (UAEM), Mexico David A. Leavens, University of Sussex, UK Michele Merritt, Arkansas State University, USA Wilson Shearin, University of Miami, USA William Michael Short, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA John Stewart, Technological University of Compiègne, France Alistair Welchman, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
Summary
The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account for the more uniquely human aspects of cognition, including the abstract and the nonsensical.
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“It provides an important contribution to the enactive project of clarifying what cognition viewed as sense-making consist of. The book’s originality lies in its unusual angle on the topic, namely by focussing on forms of sense-making … . It offers plenty of interdisciplinary insight and both theoretical and empirical support to the idea that nonsense, far from being a marginal side-effect or the opposite of cognition, is a window into the very workings of the embodied mind.” (Miriam Kyselo, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 18, 2019)
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"It provides an important contribution to the enactive project of clarifying what cognition viewed as sense-making consist of. The book's originality lies in its unusual angle on the topic, namely by focussing on forms of sense-making ... . It offers plenty of interdisciplinary insight and both theoretical and empirical support to the idea that nonsense, far from being a marginal side-effect or the opposite of cognition, is a window into the very workings of the embodied mind." (Miriam Kyselo, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 18, 2019)
