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Embodied Rational Agency

Author : Yannig Ashoka Luthra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Rational Agency written by Yannig Ashoka Luthra and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation aims to make progress in understanding what it is to be an embodied rational agent. I argue that human agency consists not just in our rational capacities for thought and understanding, but also in non-rational capacities, like our physical ability to put one foot in front of the other and walk. In trying to understand the nature of embodied rationality, my dissertation takes steps toward developing the idea that our activity as free, rational beings consists not just in cognition, but also in bodily action. I suggest that our success as practical reasoners depends constitutively on our physical abilities. Practical reason's primary function is to guide action, even though acting is not a part of one's practical reasoning. Practical reason differs in this respect from theoretical reason, since theoretical reason functions to guide belief, and forming a belief is a part of one's reasoning. In guiding action, practical reason ``reaches past itself'' in a way that theoretical reason does not. Since acting is not a part of one's reasoning, practical reason can only succeed in fulfilling its primary function as part of a larger action system. This larger action system crucially includes the physical abilities that we rely on to execute most of our actions. Thus, our success as practical reasoners depends not just on our capacities for practical thought and understanding, but also on the larger action system that those capacities function as a part of, including our physical abilities.

Embodiment and Agency

Author : Sue Campbell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271048085
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Embodiment and Agency written by Sue Campbell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Joint Ventures

Author : Alvin I. Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199874182
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Joint Ventures written by Alvin I. Goldman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by Alvin Goldman explores an array of topics in the philosophy of cognitive science, ranging from embodied cognition to the metaphysics of actions and events.

Embodied Minds in Action

Author : Robert Hanna
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191552178
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Minds in Action written by Robert Hanna and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. This unified treatment rests on two basic claims. The first is that conscious, intentional minds like ours are essentially embodied. This entails that our minds are necessarily spread throughout our living, organismic bodies and belong to their complete neurobiological constitution. So minds like ours are necessarily alive. The second claim is that essentially embodied minds are self-organizing thermodynamic systems. This entails that our mental lives consist in the possibility and actuality of moving our own living organismic bodies through space and time, by means of our conscious desires. The upshot is that we are essentially minded animals who help to create the natural world through our own agency. This doctrine—the Essential Embodiment Theory—is a truly radical idea which subverts the traditionally opposed and seemingly exhaustive categories of Dualism and Materialism, and offers a new paradigm for contemporary mainstream research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience.

The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency

Author : Christopher Erhard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351597515
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency written by Christopher Erhard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with questions about knowledge and ontology. However, in recent years the rise of interest and research in phenomenology and embodiment, the emotions and cognitive science has seen the concept of agency move to a central place in the study of phenomenology generally. The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency is an outstanding reference source to this topic and the first volume of its kind. It comprises twenty-seven chapters written by leading international contributors. Organised into two parts, the following key topics are covered: • major figures • the metaphysics of agency • rationality • voluntary and involuntary action • moral experience • deliberation and choice • phenomenology of agency and the cognitive sciences • phenomenology of freedom • embodied agency Essential reading for students and researchers in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of cognitive science The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency will also be of interest to those in closely related subjects such as sociology and psychology.

Embodied bounded rationality

Author : Shaun Gallagher
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832533434
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Embodied bounded rationality written by Shaun Gallagher and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kantian Ethics, Dignity and Perfection

Author : Paul Formosa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107189241
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kantian Ethics, Dignity and Perfection written by Paul Formosa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and original perspective on Kantian ethics that focuses on the dignity, vulnerability and perfectibility of human rational agency.

Embodied

Author : William A. Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816650128
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Embodied written by William A. Cohen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these elegant engagements with literary works, cultural history, and critical theory, Cohen advances a phenomenological approach to embodiment, proposing that we encounter the world not through our minds or souls but through our senses."--BOOK JACKET.

Embodied Minds in Action

Author : Robert Hanna
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199230315
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Minds in Action written by Robert Hanna and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied Minds in Action works out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. Hanna and Maiese offer a new paradigm for contemporary mainstream research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience.

The Mystery of Rationality

Author : Gérald Bronner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319940287
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Rationality written by Gérald Bronner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the developing dialogue between cognitive science and social sciences. It focuses on a central issue in both fields, i.e. the nature and the limitations of the rationality of beliefs and action. The development of cognitive science is one of the most important and fascinating intellectual advances of recent decades, and social scientists are paying increasing attention to the findings of this new branch of science that forces us to consider many classical issues related to epistemology and philosophy of action in a new light. Analysis of the concept of rationality is a leitmotiv in the history of the social sciences and has involved endless disputes. Since it is difficult to give a precise definition of this concept, and there is a lack of agreement about its meaning, it is possible to say that there is a ‘mystery of rationality’. What is it to be rational? Is rationality merely instrumental or does it also involve the endorsement of values, i.e. the choice of goals? Should we consider rationality to be a normative principle or a descriptive one? Can rationality be only Cartesian or can it also be argumentative? Is rationality a conscious skill or a partly tacit one? This book, which has been written by an outstanding collection of authors, including both philosophers and social scientists, tries to make a useful contribution to the debates on these problems and shed some light on the mystery of rationality. The target audience primarily comprises researchers and experts in the field.

Ideal Embodiment

Author : Angelica Nuzzo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253220157
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Ideal Embodiment written by Angelica Nuzzo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelica Nuzzo offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Kant's theory of sensibility in his three Critiques. By introducing the notion of "transcendental embodiment," Nuzzo proposes a new understanding of Kant's views on science, nature, morality, and art. She shows that the issue of human embodiment is coherently addressed and key to comprehending vexing issues in Kant's work as a whole. In this penetrating book, Nuzzo enters new terrain and takes on questions Kant struggled with: How does a body that feels pleasure and pain, desire, anger, and fear understand and experience reason and strive toward knowledge? What grounds the body's experience of art and beauty? What kind of feeling is the feeling of being alive? As she comes to grips with answers, Nuzzo goes beyond Kant to revise our view of embodiment and the essential conditions that make human experience possible.

Agency in Action

Author : S. Coval
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401124221
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Agency in Action written by S. Coval and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and to computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimental, and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. Sam Coval and Peter Campbell provide a painstaking and distinctive analysis of the nature of action and agency. They introduce a conception of acts which encompasses the purposes that motivate them, the beliefs on the basis of which they are undertaken, and the effects that they bring about. They compare and contrast their account with ones advanced by Davidson, Brand, Searle, Danto, and other, while elaborating its consequences for understanding the nature of alibis, mistakes, accidents, inadvertence, and the like. The valuable diagrams and the discussion of the software program they have developed, which implements their theory, amply displays the potential of combining philosophy and AI with law and other disciplines focused upon agency. J.H.F.

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

Author : Anthony Chemero
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262516470
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Radical Embodied Cognitive Science written by Anthony Chemero and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation. While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them in terms of mental representation. In this book, Anthony Chemero describes this nonrepresentational approach (which he terms radical embodied cognitive science), puts it in historical and conceptual context, and applies it to traditional problems in the philosophy of mind. Radical embodied cognitive science is a direct descendant of the American naturalist psychology of William James and John Dewey, and follows them in viewing perception and cognition to be understandable only in terms of action in the environment. Chemero argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than in terms of computation and representation. After outlining this orientation to cognition, Chemero proposes a methodology: dynamical systems theory, which would explain things dynamically and without reference to representation. He also advances a background theory: Gibsonian ecological psychology, “shored up” and clarified. Chemero then looks at some traditional philosophical problems (reductionism, epistemological skepticism, metaphysical realism, consciousness) through the lens of radical embodied cognitive science and concludes that the comparative ease with which it resolves these problems, combined with its empirical promise, makes this approach to cognitive science a rewarding one. “Jerry Fodor is my favorite philosopher,” Chemero writes in his preface, adding, “I think that Jerry Fodor is wrong about nearly everything.” With this book, Chemero explains nonrepresentational, dynamical, ecological cognitive science as clearly and as rigorously as Jerry Fodor explained computational cognitive science in his classic work The Language of Thought.

Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing

Author : Frédéric Basso
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031549716
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing written by Frédéric Basso and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Embodiment and Education

Author : Marjorie O'Loughlin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402045875
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Embodiment and Education written by Marjorie O'Loughlin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together some of the most important philosophical works on the body. These are then subjected to a critical analysis of what bodies 'do' and 'have done to them' in contemporary social life and particularly in education. The author acknowledges the importance of discursive bodies while focusing attention on the active, experiencing body and its anchoring in the 'creatural'. Thinking in these terms, the author argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity’, in which place-based existence is understood anew.

Natural Citizens

Author : Richard Paul Hamilton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793633525
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Natural Citizens written by Richard Paul Hamilton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to the naturalistic virtue ethics tradition, Natural Citizens applies recent work in the life sciences to develop a form of ethical naturalism that aspires to be non-reductive yet empirically responsible.

Where the Action Is

Author : Paul Dourish
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262260611
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Where the Action Is written by Paul Dourish and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "embodied interaction"—an approach to interacting with software systems that emphasizes skilled, engaged practice rather than disembodied rationality—reflects the phenomenological approaches of Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other twentieth-century philosophers. The phenomenological tradition emphasizes the primacy of natural practice over abstract cognition in everyday activity. Dourish shows how this perspective can shed light on the foundational underpinnings of current research on embodied interaction. He looks in particular at how tangible and social approaches to interaction are related, how they can be used to analyze and understand embodied interaction, and how they could affect the design of future interactive systems.