Abstract:As this volume makes clear, research on embodied cognition draws from a number of disciplines
and is supported by a variety of methodological strategies. In this chapter I focus on what
phenomenology ...As this volume makes clear, research on embodied cognition draws from a number of disciplines
and is supported by a variety of methodological strategies. In this chapter I focus on what
phenomenology has contributed to our understanding of embodied cognition. I take “phenomenology” to mean the philosophical tradition initiated in the twentieth century by Edmund
Husserl and developed by a variety of philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Aron Gurwitsch, and numerous others. More recently phenomenologists following this tradition have been drawn into theoretical and empirical research in
the cognitive sciences, and especially into discussions of enactive and embodied conceptions of
the mind (e.g. Dreyfus, 1973, 2002; Gallagher, 2005; Gallagher and Zahavi, 2012; Thompson,
2007; Varela, Thompson, and Rosch, 1991). I’ll start by looking at some of the historical
resources that define the phenomenology of the body. I’ll then consider how phenomenology, as
a methodology, relates to scientific investigations of embodied cognition, and finally go on to
identify some of the insights about embodied cognition that phenomenology provides.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-29
Language: en
Type: article
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