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Author:   Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (University of Oregon)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Volume:   82
Weight:   1.060kg
ISBN:  

9789027252197

ISBN 10:   902725219
Pages:   574
Publication Date:   06 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface to the expanded second edition; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction; 4. Section I. Foundations chapter; 5. 1. Neandertals; 6. 2 - Part I. Consciousness: A natural history; 7. 2 - Part II. Consciousness: An Aristotelian account; 8. 3. The primacy of movement; 9. Section II. Methodology; 10. 4. Husserl and Von Helmholtz - and the possibility of a trans disciplinary communal task; 11. 5. On learning to move oneself: A constructive phenomenology; 12. 6. Merleau-Ponty: A man in search of a method; 13. 7. Does philosophy begin (and end) in wonder? or what is the nature of a philosophic act?: A methodological postscript; 14. Section III. Applications; 15. 8. On the significance of animate form; 16. 9. Human speech perception and an evolutionary semantics; 17. 10. Why a mind is not a brain and a brain is not a body; 18. 11. What is it like to be a brain?; 19. 12. Thinking in movement; 20. Section IV. Twenty-first century reflections on human nature: Foundational concepts and realities; 21. 13. Animation: the fundamental, essential, and properly descriptive concept; 22. 14. Embodied minds or mindful bodies?: A core twenty-first century challenge; 23. References; 24. Name index

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