Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World
Focusing at the Existential Level
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2023
260 pages
978-1-4384-9473-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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978-1-4384-9473-9 (9781438494739)
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Ralph D. Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at Clark Atlanta University.
Content
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
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
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