Evan Thompson is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and a leading researcher in theories of "enactivism" and embodied cognition. Thompson has written extensively on cognitive science, phenomenology, and the philosophy of mind. He is the co-author of the groundbreaking work The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (1991), and his most recent book, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (2007) is a brilliant update on his version of the embodied mind thesis.
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If you have a moment, what is characteristic of his version of the embodied mind thesis?
http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-116-media-ecologies-and-imaginary-media-transversal-expansions-contractions-and-foldings/
http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/09/weekly-philo-of-economics-controlled-hallucinations-or-andy-clark-meets-adam-smith.html
http://www.petergodfreysmith.com/PGSDeweyMcD-06H.pdf
That last one is nice--read a few pages. Finish later. Continuity is the mainstay of Deweyan pragmatism, i.e., his realist naturalism, wherein all of culture is still real.
JH, I'll be interested in your take on the whole paper as time/interest allows, PG-S has some other very good papers on that site and is an excellent evolutionary thinker. I think that Dewey's darwinian turn takes him much farther from Peirce than I think that you do into a realm of thinking that is truly his own and away from broadly aristotelian notions of telos to really begin to come to terms with contingency.
-dmf
DMF,
Given how very loose my "Aristotelian" notions of telos are, how do I not already fit into that category? Regardless, Dewey never worked this out, and I am doing so systematically. I am doing it, btw, to unify process metaphysics and phenomenology, which is why I went to Dewey who already started that and did it in a way that can connect to experimental science.
Also, "telos" in its temporal connotation is best thought in terms of Heidegger's notion of the understanding. That might take some explaining if you don't see where I'm going with that.
I would be delighted if you could specify what you think the problems with the view are, because then I could either learn how to better explain the position or correct it.
As far as contingency goes, it's contingency and temporality all the way down, so I don't see how much more one could have.
Jason,
I'll comment on ET's intentions in a few days maybe. I still owe a lot of stuf to a lot of folks...
Thanks.
DMF (and anyone else interested),
Now that my article has been accepted to the Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, I am willing to float the draft if you'd like to see what I mean. I should warn peeps that I'm publishing in a pragmatist speciality journal, so I presume a high level of background knowledge.
@Jason - I'd love to read it: ambientdisorder@gmail.com
congrats JH,if you send a copy to our good host I imagine that he will kindly pass it along.
-dmf
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