Madzia R., Jung M. (eds.) Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science

Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016. — 306 p. — ISBN 978-3-11-047889-1Over the last two decades, cognitive sciences,as well as human sciences in general, have witnessed a considerable paradigm shift with regard to their outlook on the nature of the human mind, cognition, perception and action.Traditional cognitive sciences have, without adequate critical examination, inherited their conceptual framework and theoretical outlook on what cognition is from representatives of the early modern philosophical tradition such as René Descartes, John Locke and/or David Hume. Within the early modern framework, the mind was understood as a peculiar sort of an object that could be characterized by specific properties. From the Cartesian perspective,the mind was perceived as an organ for thinking (Rowlands 2003). In a similar manner as the stomach digests and eyes see, according toearly Modern thinkers—“the mind thinks”. Within that philosophical perspective, the mind, being a specific kind of organ, was allegedly contained in the brain (internalism). Unlike other bodilyorgans that are situated entirely in the physical world and are, hence,governed by purely mechanical principles, the mind was taken to be governed primarily by the principles of reason (intellectualism).Part I: Pragmatism as a Philosophical Foundation of Cognitive Science
Pragmatic Interventions into Enactive and Extended Conceptions of Cognition
Pragmatism, Embodiment, and Extension
Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Extended Cognition
Embodied Cognitive Science, Pragmatism, and the Fate of Mental Representation
Part II: Embedding Embodied Cognitive Science: A Larger Picture
Pragmatism, Cognitive Science, and Embodied Mind
Why It’s Better Be Pragmatism: Assembling Some Philosophical Foundations for Future Cognitive Science
Recovering Philosophy from CognitiveScience
The Embodied “We”: The Extended Mind as Cognitive Sociology
Sympathy and Empathy: G. H. Mead and the Pragmatist Basis of (Neuro)economics
Part III:The Pragmatists as Pioneers of Situated Cognition: Embodied Language, Reasoning, and Feeling
Mind, Symbol and Action-Prediction: George H.Mead and the Embodied Roots of Language
Dewey, Enactivism, and Greek Thought
Peirce on Abduction and Embodiment
William James and John Dewey on Embodied Action-Oriented Emotions
Feeling as theForce Dynamics of Thought. The Role of Feeling in the Jamesian Stream of Though