The meaning of the body : aesthetics of human understanding /
La creencia de que la mente y el cuerpo están separados y que la mente es la fuente de todo significado ha sido parte de la cultura occidental durante siglos. Tanto los filósofos como los científicos han cuestionado este dualismo, pero sus esfuerzos rara vez han convergido. Muchos filósofos continúa...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : BODILY MEANING AND FELT SENSE The movement of life. Big babies. "Since feeling is first" : emotional dimensions of meaning. The grounding of meaning in the qualities of life. Feeling William James's "but" : the aesthetics of reasoning and logic.
- Part II : EMBODIED MEANING AND THE SCIENCES OF MIND. The origin of meaning in organism-environment coupling : a nonrepresentational view of mind. The corporeal roots of symbolic meaning. The brain's role in meaning. From embodied meaning to abstract thought. Art as an exemplar of meaning-making. Music and the flow of meaning. The meaning of the body.