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Title Embodiment in evolution and culture / edited by Gregor Etzelmüller and Christian Tewes
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2016]

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Contents 1. Philosophical concepts and perspectives of embodiment -- 2. The embodied evolution of symbolic competence -- 3. Embodiment as a bridging concept for evolutionary and historical anthropology -- 4. The mutual intertwinement of nature and culture
Summary From its beginnings, the theory of evolution has unsettled fundamental anthropological assumptions about the place of human beings in nature. The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered by the philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century. Their attempts were to hold on even more resolutely to the special status of humans as beings 'open towards the world'. Today, evolutionary and philosophical anthropology have moved closer together via the paradigm of embodiment. Building on embodied cognitive science, this volume aims to establish how far the human mind and human cultural cognition can be attributed to the structures of human existence, structures which have emerged in the course of evolution and have in turn been affected by culture. The traditional dualism of nature and culture is transformed into an explanation of an evolutionary process in which body and mind are understood to be intertwined and mutually constitutive
Analysis Philosophy
History of philosophy
Anthropology
evolution
nature
Darwinism
embodiment
cognitive science
philosophy of science
PHI035000
SOC002010
SOC002000
QDH
JHMC
QD
JHM
QDT
Notes Papers of a conference held December, 2014, in Heidelberg
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- Congresses
Ethnology -- Congresses
Mind and body -- Congresses
Cognition -- Congresses
Anthropology -- Congresses
Philosophical anthropology -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Anthropology
Cognition
Ethnology
Human body -- Social aspects
Human body -- Symbolic aspects
Mind and body
Philosophical anthropology
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Etzelmüller, Gregor, 1971- editor.
Tewes, Christian, 1972- editor.
LC no. 2019667978
ISBN 3161549015
9783161549014
3161547365
9783161547362