By Alfonsina Scarinzi

ISBN-10: 9401793786

ISBN-13: 9789401793780

ISBN-10: 9402406506

ISBN-13: 9789402406504

The venture of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made nice technical strides (e.g., in mapping parts of mind activity), yet has been hampered in lots of situations via its uncritical reliance on a dualistic “Cartesian” paradigm (though as the various authors within the assortment indicate, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant additionally play a role). the current quantity proposes a model of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but additionally from James and Peirce)—one primed from the beginning to work out people not just as embodied, yet as inseparable from the surroundings they have interaction with—and offers a discussion board for authors from diversified disciplines to deal with particular medical and philosophical matters in the anti-dualistic framework contemplating aesthetic adventure as a means of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from top researchers together with Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino.

The quantity covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive technological know-how, literary reports, psychology of aesthetics, paintings and layout, sociology.

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