The Hand, an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental
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The Hand, an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental
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Overview
Cartesian-inspired dualism enforces a theoretical distinction between the motor and the cognitive and locates the mental exclusively in the head. This collection, focusing on the hand, challenges this dichotomy, offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the interconnectedness and interdependence of the manual and mental. The contributors explore the possibility that the hand, far from being the merely mechanical executor of preconceived mental plans, possesses its own know-how, enabling "enhanded" beings to navigate the natural, social, and cultural world without engaging propositional thought, consciousness, and deliberation.
The contributors consider not only broad philosophical questions—ranging from the nature of embodiment, enaction, and the extended mind to the phenomenology of agency—but also such specific issues as touching, grasping, gesturing, sociality, and simulation. They show that the capacities of the hand include perception (on its own and in association with other modalities), action, (extended) cognition, social interaction, and communication. Taken together, their accounts offer a handbook of cutting-edge research exploring the ways that the manual shapes and reshapes the mental and creates conditions for embodied agents to act in the world.
Contributors
Matteo Baccarini, Andrew J. Bremner, Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, Andy Clark, Jonathan Cole, Dorothy Cowie, Natalie Depraz, Rosalyn Driscoll, Harry Farmer, Shaun Gallagher, Nicholas P. Holmes, Daniel D. Hutto, Angelo Maravita, Filip Mattens, Richard Menary, Jesse J. Prinz, Zdravko Radman, Matthew Ratcliffe, Etiennne B. Roesch, Stephen V. Shepherd, Susan A.J. Stuart, Manos Tsakiris, Michael Wheeler
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262313544 |
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| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 05/10/2013 |
| Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 464 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
About the Author
Jesse J. Prinz is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jonathan Cole, D.M., F.R.C.P., is Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital, and at Salisbury Hospital (with its Spinal Centre), a Professor at Bournemouth University and a visiting Senior Lecturer, Southampton University.
Matthew Ratcliffe is Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He is author of Experiences of Depression, Feelings of Being, and Rethinking Commonsense Psychology.
Shaun Gallagher is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Central Florida and coeditor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
Daniel D. Hutto is Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Wollongong and the author of Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis for Understanding Reasons (MIT Press) and coauthor of Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content (MIT Press).
Andy Clark is Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.
Michael Wheeler is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (MIT Press, 2005).
Massimiliano L. Cappuccio is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, and research associate at University of New South Wales
Richard Menary is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Cognitive Integration and other books.
Zdravko Radman is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, and the University of Split, Croatia. He is the author of Metaphors: Figures of the Mind and the editor of Knowing without Thinking: Mind, Action, Cognition, and the Phenomenon of the Background.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Hand Manifesto Jesse J. Prinz ix
Beforehand Zdravko Radman xix
Acknowledgments xxiii
Contributors xxv
I Hand-Centeredness 1
1 "Capable of whatever man's ingenuity suggests": Agency, Deafferentation, and the Control of Movement Jonathan Cole 3
2 Developmental Origins of the Hand in the Mind, and the Role of the Hand in the Development of the Mind Andrew J. Bremner Dorothy Cowie 27
3 Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement Nicholas P. Holmes 57
4 Beyond the Boundaries of the Hand: Plasticity of Body-Space Interactions Following Tool Use Matteo Baccarini Angelo Maravita 77
II Togetherness in Touch 101
5 Touching Hands: A Neurocognitive Review of Intersubjective Touch Harry Farmer Manos Tsakiris 103
6 Touch and the Sense of Reality Matthew Ratcliffe 131
7 Perception and Representation: Mind the Hand! Filip Mattens 159
8 Phenomenology of the Hand Natalie Depraz 185
III Manual Enaction 207
9 The Enactive Hand Shaun Gallagher 209
10 Radically Enactive Cognition in Our Grasp Daniel D. Hutto 227
IV The Gist of Gestures 253
11 Gesture as Thought? Andy Clark 255
12 Is Cognition Embedded or Extended? The Case of Gestures Michael Wheeler 269
13 Pointing Hand: Joint Attention and Embodied Symbols Massimiliano L. Cappuccio Stephen V. Shepherd 303
V Manipulation and the Mundane 327
14 Privileging Exploratory Hands: Prehension, Apprehension, Comprehension Susan A. J. Stuart 329
15 The Enculturated Hand Richard Menary 349
16 On Displacement of Agency: The Mind Handmade Zdravko Radman 369
VI Tomorrow's Hands 399
17 A Critical Review of Classical Computational Approaches to Cognitive Robotics: Case Study for Theories of Cognition? Etienne B. Roesch 401
Postscript: Rehabilitating the Hand: Reflections of a Haptic Artist Rosalyn Driscoll 421
Index 427