The Embodiment of Meaning
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-57408-0 (ISBN)
In discussing the question of whether or not we are just material beings, Hilary Putnam once claimed that “we could be made of Swiss cheese and it wouldn't matter.” Fifty years later, functionalism still reigns, and the psychological irrelevance of the materiality of our bodies remains a hardwired assumption of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. As this book shows, the idea of the possibility of a disembodied mind is rooted in a philosophical depreciation of the particular in favor of the abstract, an attitude which runs through Western philosophy as a red thread. The Embodiment of Meaning demonstrates how this privileging of the immaterial-abstract over the material-particular is not only untenable from a logical-philosophical point of view; it also runs counter to a basic fact of human psychology itself: rather than being irrelevant, the world precisely matters most in its material particularity. In addition to offering a thoroughgoing criticism of the Platonic-functionalist “abstract-over-particular” idea, the book aims to substantially contribute to a less ambiguous understanding of the various ways in which “matter matters.”
Farid Zahnoun is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of philosophy of mind and cognitive science with an expertise in the topics of mental representation, perception, and the notion of information within theoretical neuroscience. He is currently affiliated with the Free University of Berlin (FU) and the University of Antwerp (UA).
Introduction; 1. Mistaking the score for the music: intellectualism and the philosopher’s fallacy; 2. Multiple realizability and the irrelevance of matter; 3. The embodiment of meaning; 4. Categorial and particular identity; Intermezzo: six honest serving men; 5. Embodied experience; 6. Psychology as strongly embodied; 7. Embodiment and identity; Epilogue: the significant body; Afterthought on sense-making; References.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.09.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-57408-9 / 1032574089 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-57408-0 / 9781032574080 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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