Embodiment, Emotion, and Cognition

✍ Scribed by Michelle Maiese

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beginning with the view that human consciousness is essentially embodied and that the way we consciously experience the world is structured by our bodily dynamics and surroundings, the book argues that emotions are a fundamental manifestation of our embodiment, and play a crucial role in self-consciousness, moral evaluation, and social cognition.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1.0 Introduction......Page 23
1.1 Consciousness In and Through the Body: Sensorimotor Subjectivity......Page 30
1.2 Five Intrinsic Structures of Sensorimotor Subjectivity......Page 38
1.3 Life as the Foundation for Sensorimotor Subjectivity......Page 47
1.4 Essentially Embodied Emotions......Page 56
1.5 Conclusion......Page 60
2.0 Introduction......Page 63
2.1 Cognitive Theories of Emotion......Page 69
2.2 Desire-Based Emotions......Page 74
2.3 Emotional Intentionality......Page 84
2.4 Affective Framing......Page 95
3.0 Introduction......Page 103
3.1 Unified Consciousness and the Sense of Self......Page 104
3.2 Immanent Reflexivity......Page 108
3.3 A Necessarily and Completely Neurobiologically Embodied, Egocentric Point of View......Page 114
3.4 Embodied Agency and Desire-Based Emotions......Page 119
3.5 What Does It Mean to Be an Essentially Embodied Self?......Page 127
4.0 Introduction: Egocentric, Caring-Contoured Maps......Page 132
4.1 The ‘High-Reason’ View of Decision-Making and Moral Evaluation......Page 136
4.2 The Crucial Role of Emotion and Affect......Page 139
4.3 The Frame Problem......Page 144
4.4 Conclusion......Page 158
5.0 Introduction......Page 164
5.1 Concerns about Theory-Theory and Simulation-Theory......Page 166
5.2 Rethinking Social Cognition: ‘Primary Intersubjectivity’ and Affective Framing......Page 170
5.3 Context, Social Roles, and Participatory Sense-Making......Page 186
5.4 Conclusion......Page 195
6.0 Introduction......Page 198
6.1 Schizophrenia......Page 200
6.2 Psychopathy......Page 217
6.3 Autism......Page 231
6.4 Conclusion......Page 246
Concluding Remarks......Page 248
Notes......Page 251
Bibliography......Page 256
Index......Page 268