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Knowing without thinking : mind, action, cognition and the phenomenon of the background / edited by Zdravko Radman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xx, 256 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780230285132
  • 0230285139
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128 23
Contents:
Introduction / Zdravko Radman -- Introductory essay: The mystery of the vackground qua background / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Part I. Themes from Dreyfus and Searle: 1. Ground-level intelligence: action-oriented representation and the dynamics of the background / Massimiliano Cappuccio and Michael Wheeler; 2. Exposing the background: deep and local / Daniel D. Hutto; 3. The background as intentional, conscious, and nonconceptual / Michael Schmitz; 4. Social cognition, the Chinese room, and the robot replies / Shaun Gallagher; 5. Contesting John's Searle' social ontology: institutions and background / Joseph Margolis; 6. Music and the background / Daniel A. Schmicking -- Part II. The Further Unfolding of the henomenon: 7. Implicit precision / Eugene T. Gendlin; 8. Enkinaesthesia: the essential sensuous background for co-agency / Susan A.J. Stuart; 9. Steps entailed in foregrounding the background: taking the challenge of languaging experience seriously / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; 10. The body as background: pragmatism and somasthetics / Richard Shusterman; 11. The background: a tool of potentiality / Zdravko Radman; 12. Embodied technology as implicit background of modern civilization / Klaus Mainzer.
Summary: "A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus, but also make significant contribution in bringing the discussion beyond the classical confines"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Zdravko Radman -- Introductory essay: The mystery of the vackground qua background / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Part I. Themes from Dreyfus and Searle: 1. Ground-level intelligence: action-oriented representation and the dynamics of the background / Massimiliano Cappuccio and Michael Wheeler; 2. Exposing the background: deep and local / Daniel D. Hutto; 3. The background as intentional, conscious, and nonconceptual / Michael Schmitz; 4. Social cognition, the Chinese room, and the robot replies / Shaun Gallagher; 5. Contesting John's Searle' social ontology: institutions and background / Joseph Margolis; 6. Music and the background / Daniel A. Schmicking -- Part II. The Further Unfolding of the henomenon: 7. Implicit precision / Eugene T. Gendlin; 8. Enkinaesthesia: the essential sensuous background for co-agency / Susan A.J. Stuart; 9. Steps entailed in foregrounding the background: taking the challenge of languaging experience seriously / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; 10. The body as background: pragmatism and somasthetics / Richard Shusterman; 11. The background: a tool of potentiality / Zdravko Radman; 12. Embodied technology as implicit background of modern civilization / Klaus Mainzer.

"A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus, but also make significant contribution in bringing the discussion beyond the classical confines"-- Provided by publisher.