Enactivist Interventions

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including perception, affect, and action. Gallagher argues that the brain is not secluded from the world or isolated in its own processes, but rather is dynamically connected with body and environment.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Variations on embodied cognition


• 3: Pragmatic resources for enactive and extended minds


• 4: Enactive intentionality


• 5: Action without representations


• 6: Perception without inferences


• 7: Action and the problem of free will


• 8: Making enactivism even more embodied


• 9: The upright posture: its current standing


• 10: The practice of thinking

About the author

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has had visiting positions in Cambridge, Copenhagen, Paris, Lyon, Berlin, and most recently Oxford. His research areas include phenomenology and philosophy of mind, embodied cognition, theories of self, intersubjectivity and social cognition. Professor Gallagher holds the Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier Research Award (2012-18). His previous publications include How the Body Shapes the Mind (2005) and The Phenomenological Mind (2012).

Summary

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including perception, affect, and action. Gallagher argues that the brain is not secluded from the world or isolated in its own processes, but rather is dynamically connected with body and environment.

Additional text

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Product details

• Authors: Gallagher , Shaun Gallagher, Shaun (Au Gallagher, Shaun (Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy Gallagher, Gallagher Shaun
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198848066
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884806-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, States Of Consciousness