The Primacy of MovementThis expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point, elucidating it within both an enactive and qualitative affective-kinetic dynamic. It follows through with a thoroughgoing interdisciplinary inquiry into movement from three perspectives: mind, brain, and the conceptually reciprocal realities of receptivity and responsivity as set forth in phenomenology and evolutionary biology, respectively. It ends with a substantive afterword on kinesthesia, pointing up the incontrovertible significance of the faculty to cognition and affectivity. Series A |
Contents
Neandertals | 3 |
A natural history | 37 |
An Aristotelian account | 77 |
The primacy of movement | 113 |
SECTION II Methodology | 153 |
Husserl and Von Helmholtz and the possibility of a trans disciplinary communal task | 155 |
A constructive phenomenology | 193 |
A man in search of a method | 237 |
Human speech perception and an evolutionary semantics | 321 |
Why a mind is not a brain and a brain is not a body | 347 |
What is it like to be a brain? | 391 |
Thinking in movement | 419 |
Foundational concepts and realities | 451 |
Animation | 453 |
Embodied Minds or Mindful Bodies? | 477 |
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Does philosophy begin and end in wonder? or what is the nature of a philosophic act? | 279 |
SECTION III Applications | 297 |
On the significance of animate form | 299 |
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