Ellis Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World

Focusing at the Existential Level
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9473-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellis, Ralph D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Interpreting Reality Presupposes an Understanding of Emotion

1. The Subterranean Role of Enactive Meaning: “PANIC,” “SEEKING,” and the Action Trajectories of Valuation

2. Focusing, Enactivity, and the Opacity of Directionality

3. We’re Not in Behaviorism Anymore: Panksepp and Damasio on the Enactive Structure of Motivation

4. The Extended Value System and the Place of Instrumentality

5. Hannah Arendt and the Curious Nihilism of Grand-Scheme Value Systems

6. The Symbolic Dimension: Gendlin’s Embodied Symbolization and the Limits of the Static Image

7. Total Failure of Inspiration: Lessons from the Sudden Murderer and the Family Annihilator

8. Lessons from Alexithymia: The Role of Phenomenological Reflection in Understanding Enactive Motivation

9. The Hot-Cold Meter: Unlocking Internal Conflict by Updating Hermeneutical Worldviews

10. A. J. Ayer’s Stepchildren: Relativism, Truth, and the Crisis of Postmodernity

11. The Hermeneutic Circle: A Story of Internal Conflict

Conclusions The Embodied Mind and the “That for the Sake of Which”
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph D. Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at Clark Atlanta University.