Knowing without thinking
Subtitle: mind, action, cognition and the phenomenon of the background
By: [edited by] Zdravko Radman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230285132
Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology; PHILOSOPHY / General; Act (Philosophy); Theory of Knowledge; Thought and thinking; Philosophy of mind; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
Description: "A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus, but also make significant contribution in bringing the discussion beyond the classical confines"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction; Z.Radman; title: The Mystery of the Background qua Background; H.L.Dreyfus; title: PART I: ECHOING SEARLE'S AND DREYFUS' VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND; title: Ground-Level Intelligence:Action-Oriented Representation and the Dynamics of the Background; M.Cappuccio& M.Wheeler; title: Exposing the Background: Deep and Local; D.D.Hutto; title: The Background as Intentional, Conscious, and Nonconceptual; M.Schmitz; title: Social Cognition, the Chinese Room, and the Robot Replies; S.Gallagher; title: Contesting John's Searle' Social Ontology: Institutions and Background; J.Margolis; title: Music and the Background; D.Schmicking; title: PART II: EXTENDED VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND; title: Implicit Precision; E.T.Gendlin; title: Enkinaesthesia: The Essential Sensuous Background for Co-Agency; S.A.J.Stuart; title: Steps Entailed in Foregrounding the Background: Taking the Challenge of Languaging Experience Seriously; M.Sheets-Johnstone; title: The Body as Background: Pragmatism and Somasthetics; R.Shusterman; title: The Background: A Tool of Potentiality; Z.Radman; title: Embodied Technology as Implicit Knowledge of Modern Civilization; K.Mainzer; title: Index.