Internal perception : the role of bodily information in concepts and word mastery / Sara Dellantonio, Luigi Pastore.
2017
P123 .D45 2017eb
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Title
Internal perception : the role of bodily information in concepts and word mastery / Sara Dellantonio, Luigi Pastore.
Author
Dellantonio, Sara, author.
ISBN
9783662557631 (electronic book)
3662557630 (electronic book)
9783662557617
3662557614
3662557630 (electronic book)
9783662557617
3662557614
Published
Berlin : Springer, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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P123 .D45 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
100
Summary
This book investigates how bodily information contributes to categorization processes for at least some conceptual classes and thus to the individual mastery of meanings for at least some word classes. The bodily information considered is mainly that provided by the so-called proprioceptive and interoceptive systems introduced by Sherrington. The authors reconsider this in a new Gibsonian fashion calling it more generally "proprioception", which indicates the complex of all the bodily signals we are aware of and the qualitative experiences these give rise to. The book shows that proprioceptive information understood in this sense is essential for explaining (among others) how we develop broad categories such as animate vs. inanimate, concepts denoting bodily experiences such as hunger or pain as well as emotions and abstract concepts such as friendship and freedom and in accounting for how we master the meanings of the corresponding words in our language.
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Pastore, Luigi, author.
Series
Studies in applied philosophy, epistemology and rational ethics ; 40.
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Table of Contents
FIrst person access to mental states
The misleading aspects of the mind/computer analogy
Semantic competence from the inside : conceptual architecture and composition
In the beginning there were categories
Internal states : from headache to anger : conceptualization and semantic mastery
The 'proprioceptive' component of abstract concepts
Concluding remarks.
The misleading aspects of the mind/computer analogy
Semantic competence from the inside : conceptual architecture and composition
In the beginning there were categories
Internal states : from headache to anger : conceptualization and semantic mastery
The 'proprioceptive' component of abstract concepts
Concluding remarks.