Mind in Action: Experience and Embodied Cognition in Pragmatism by Pentti M??tt?

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The unit of analysis is the loop of action and perception, and the central concept is the notion of habit of action, which provides the embodied basis of cognition as the anticipation of action.

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The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external. This leads to revised notions of the structure of experience and the object of knowledge. Our world is experienced as possibilities of action, and to know is to know what to do. A further consequence is that the mind is best considered as a property of organisms' interactions with their environment. The unit of analysis is the loop of action and perception, and the central concept is the notion of habit of action, which provides the embodied basis of cognition as the anticipation of action. This holds for non-linguistic tacit meanings as well as for linguistic meanings. Habit of action is a teleological notion and thus opens a possibility for defining intentionality and normativity in terms of the soft naturalism adopted in the book. The mind is embodied, and this embodiment determines our physical perspective on the world. Our sensory organs and other instruments give us instrumental access to the world, and this access is epistemic in character. The distinction between the physical and conceptual viewpoint allows us to define truth as the correspondence with operational fit. This embodied epistemic truth is however not a sign of antirealism, as the instrumentally accessed theoretical objects are precisely those objects that experimental science deals with. 

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The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external. This leads to revised notions of the structure of experience and the object of knowledge. Our world is experienced as possibilities of action, and to know is to know what to do . A further consequence is that the mind is best considered as a property of organisms' interactions with their environment. The unit of analysis is the loop of action and perception, and the central concept is the notion of habit of action, which provides the embodied basis of cognition as the anticipation of action. This holds for non-linguistic tacit meanings as well as for linguistic meanings. Habit of action is a teleological notion and thus opens a possibility for defining intentionality and normativity in terms of the soft naturalism adopted in the book. The mind is embodied, and this embodiment determines our physical perspective on the world. Our sensory organs and other instruments give us instrumental access to the world, and this access is epistemic in character. The distinction between the physical and conceptual viewpoint allows us to define truth as the correspondence with operational fit. This embodied epistemic truth is however not a sign of antirealism, as the instrumentally accessed theoretical objects are precisely those objects that experimental science deals with.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Challenging Classical Dichotomies.- Philosophical Naturalism.- Experience and the Object of Knowledge.- Habit of Action.- Habits as Meanings.- Mind and Interaction .- Facts and Values in Pragmatism.- Mind in Action and the Problem of Realism.

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Examines the consequences of re-evaluating the dichotomies of apparent and real, and that of the internal and external Discusses the notion of habit of action as vehicle of knowing Gives an analysis of mind as a property of organism environment interaction Shows the connection between facts and values in naturalism

Details ISBN3319369601 Year 2016 ISBN-10 3319369601 ISBN-13 9783319369600 Format Paperback Pages 94 Publication Date 2016-10-06 Language English Media Book DEWEY 006.3 Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Experience and Embodied Cognition in Pragmatism Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 94 p. 1 illus. Short Title Mind in Action Series Number 18 Author Pentti Määttänen Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015 Series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics Alternative 9783319176222 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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