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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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146780

Aesthetics and the embodied mind

beyond art theory and the cartesian mind-body dichotomy

Abstract

The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic "Cartesian" paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a version of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but also from James and Peirce)—one primed from the start to see human beings not only as embodied, but as inseparable from the environment they interact with—and provides a forum for authors from diverse disciplines to address specific scientific and philosophical issues within the anti-dualistic  framework considering aesthetic experience as a process of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from leading researchers including Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino.

The volume covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive science, literary studies, psychology of aesthetics, art and design, sociology.

Details | Table of Contents

The aesthetic stance

on the conditions and consequences of becoming a beholder

Maria Brincker

pp.117-138

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9379-7_8
Art that moves

exploring the embodied basis of art representation, production, and evaluation

Kendall J. Eskine Aaron Kozbelt

pp.157-173

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9379-7_10
Enactive aesthetics

philosophical reflections on artful minds

Daniel Hutto

pp.211-227

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9379-7_13
No neuron is an island

a neuroaesthetic inquiry into Omer Fast's mimetic interactions

Sally McKay

pp.315-330

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9379-7_19

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2015

Pages: 330

Series: Contributions to Phenomenology

Series volume: 73

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9379-7

ISBN (hardback): 978-94-017-9378-0

ISBN (digital): 978-94-017-9379-7

Full citation:

(2015) Aesthetics and the embodied mind: beyond art theory and the cartesian mind-body dichotomy. Dordrecht, Springer.