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The first volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind focuses on the concept of embodiment, understood in most general terms as "the bodily basis of phenomena such as meaning, mind, cognition and language". The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary state-of-the-art collection of papers on embodiment and brings together a large variety of different perspectives, from cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and artificial intelligence. Being envisioned as a reader of sorts in theoretical and empirical research on embodiment, the book revolves around several core issues that have been addressed previously, to a large degree independently, in various disciplines. In particular the volume illustrates the diversity of notions of embodiment that has arisen in various disciplines over the last twenty years, and addresses the question how these different interpretations relate to each other, i.e. are they different aspects of or different perspectives on the same phenomena, or do they actually contradict each other? For this purpose, several aspects of cognition and language, such as phenomenal experience, perception, action, conceptualization, communication, meaning creation, social interaction and culture, are illuminated from the perspective of different theories of embodiment. The contributions are integrated through cross-connections between individual authors' papers and through an introductory essay that identifies the different strands of research, the central issues that they share, and the synergies that can be gained from addressing embodiment from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Language and languages --- Mind and body. --- Semiotics. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Philosophy. --- Psychological aspects --- Cognitive Linguistics.

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Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- Consciousness --- Materialism --- Mind and body --- Other minds (Theory of knowledge) --- Zombies --- Minds of others (Theory of knowledge) --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Physicalism --- Zombis --- Miscellanea --- Psychological aspects --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Brain --- Dualism --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Animism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Apperception --- Perception --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Dead

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How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in "Mind in Life". Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy to argue that mind and life are more continuous than has previously been accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and phenomenology of mind. Where there is life, Thompson argues, there is mind: life and mind share common principles of self-organisation, and the self-organising features of mind are an enriched version of the self-organizing features of life. Rather than trying to close the explanatory gap, Thompson marshals philosophical and scientific analyses to bring unprecedented insight to the nature of life and consciousness. This synthesis of phenomenology and biology helps make "Mind in Life" a vital and long-awaited addition to his landmark volume "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience" (co-authored with Eleanor Rosch and Francisco Varela). Endlessly interesting and accessible, "Mind in Life" is a groundbreaking addition to the fields of the theory of the mind, life science, and phenomenology.

Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- Consciousness. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Phenomenology. --- Mind and body. --- Experience. --- Consciousness --- Experience --- Mind and body --- Phenomenology --- Philosophy of mind --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy, Modern --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Brain --- Dualism --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Psychology --- Reality --- Pragmatism --- Apperception --- Perception --- Spirit --- Psychological aspects --- Philosophy of science --- Conscience. --- Esprit et corps. --- Philosophie de l'esprit. --- Phénoménologie.

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Forming the Mind deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It stresses how important and fruitful it is to see the time period between 1100 and 1700 as one continuous tradition, and brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. In this respect, this collection opens up several new and interesting perspectives on the history of the philosophy of mind.

Philosophy of mind. --- Mind and body. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Philosophy, Renaissance. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Brain --- Dualism --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Renaissance philosophy --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Psychology --- Psychological aspects --- Philosophy, medieval. --- Philosophy, Asian. --- Philosophy (General). --- Medieval Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Non-Western Philosophy. --- History of Philosophy. --- Asian philosophy --- Oriental philosophy --- Philosophy, Oriental --- Medieval philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Philosophical Traditions. --- History. --- Modern philosophy

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The challenge presented by the recent tendencies to "naturalize" phenomenology, on the basis of the progress in biological and neurological sciences, calls for an investigation of the traditional mind-body problem. The progress in phenomenological investigation is up to answering that challenge by placing the issues at stake upon a novel platform, that is the ontopoiesis of life. The present collection of studies extends our investigation (see Analecta Husserliana vol. 93) by seeking the ontopoietic continuity of sense between the vitally and spiritually significant functions of life. From the multiple approaches stretching through "The Animal, the Human, and the Divine" (Ales Bello), there come to the fore the intellective, aesthetic, moral fruits of the creative human mind: "The In-Depth Body and the Coming About of Ego" (De Preester), "Consciousness in the Perspective of Evolution" (Fiut), "Science and the Human Phenomenon" (Zonneveld), "Specifically Human Empathy" (Adri Smalling), and others. The emphasis falls upon "The Living Soul" (Shkubulyani) as the common origin of life’s sense giving functions, which in their ontopoietic unfolding become informed by the simultaneously originating human creative mind, crowned in its advance by the sacral "Spiritual Emergence" (Louchakova).

Life -- Congresses. --- Phenomenology -- Congresses. --- Phenomenology. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Phenomenology --- Life --- Soul. --- Mind and body. --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Pneuma --- Psychological aspects --- Life sciences. --- Philosophy. --- Biology --- Cognitive psychology. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Philosophy of Man. --- Philosophy of Biology. --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Psychology --- Philosophy, Modern --- Vitalism --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Future life --- Theological anthropology --- Animism --- Spirit --- Phenomenology . --- Consciousness. --- Biology-Philosophy. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Biology—Philosophy. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Self. --- Philosophy of the Self. --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Metaphysics