The hand, an organ of the mind : what the manual tells the mental / edited by Zdravko Radman.
2013
T59.7 .H337 2013eb
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Title
The hand, an organ of the mind : what the manual tells the mental / edited by Zdravko Radman.
ISBN
9780262313537 (electronic bk.)
0262313537 (electronic bk.)
9781299539075 (MyiLibrary)
1299539076 (MyiLibrary)
9780262018845
0262018845
9780262313520
0262313537 (electronic bk.)
9781299539075 (MyiLibrary)
1299539076 (MyiLibrary)
9780262018845
0262018845
9780262313520
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxx, 433 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
T59.7 .H337 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
121/.35
Summary
"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."--Publisher's description.
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Radman, Zdravko, 1951-
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