Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making [electronic resource] : Making Sense of Non-Sense /
Cappuccio, Massimiliano.editor.
Froese, Tom.editor.
The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account for the more uniquely human aspects of cognition, including the abstract and the nonsensical.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I Theory and Method; 2 Breaking the Perception-Action Cycle: Experimental Phenomenology of Non-Sense and Its Implications for Theories of Perception and Movement Science; 3 Making Sense of Non-Sense in Physics: The Quantum Koan; 4 The Plight of the Sense-Making Ape; 5 Immune Self and Non-Sense; Part II Experience and Psychopathology; 6 The Surprise of Non-Sense; 7 Learning to Perceive What We Do Not Yet Understand: Letting the World Guide Us
8 No Non-Sense without Imagination: Schizophrenic Delusion as Reified Imaginings Unchallengeable by PerceptionPart III Language and Culture; 9 On Being Mindful About Misunderstandings in Languaging: Making Sense of Non-Sense as the Way to Sharing Linguistic Meaning; 10 Deleuze and the Enaction of Non-Sense; 11 Traditional Shamanism as Embodied Expertise on Sense and Non-Sense; 12 Making (Non)sense of Gender; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account for the more uniquely human aspects of cognition, including the abstract and the nonsensical.
Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive grammar.
Consciousness.
Philosophy (General).
Philosophy of Mind.
Cognitive Linguistics.
Cognitive Psychology.
General Psychology.