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This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point, elucidating it within both an enactive and qualitative affective-kinetic dynamic. It follows through with a thoroughgoing interdisciplinary inquiry into movement from three perspectives: mind, brain, and the conceptually reciprocal realities of receptivity and responsivity as set forth in phenomenology and evolutionary biology, respectively. It ends with a substantive afterword on kinesthesia, pointing up the incontrovertible significance of the faculty to cognition and affectivity. Series A

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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:   1.250kg
ISBN:  

9789027252180

ISBN 10:   9027252181
Pages:   574
Publication Date:   06 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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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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