Overview
- Provides an utterly original staging of meta-philosophy in terms of the enactive philosophy of embodied cognition
- Explores how we question and self-reflect even as the pursuit of inquiry reflexively transforms us
- Discusses what it means for a human being thought of as an embodied subject to pursue philosophy
Part of the book series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (NDPCS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book is the first formulation of a meta-philosophical scheme rooted in the embodied cognition paradigm. The latter views subjects capable of cognition and experience as living, embodied creatures coupled with their environments. On the other hand, the emergence of experimental philosophy has given rise to a new context in which philosophers have begun to search for a more thorough definition of philosophical competence. The time is ripe for these two trends to join their efforts. Therefore, the book discusses what it means for a human being thought of as a living subject to pursue philosophy. In this context, in contrast to the existing literature, philosophical competence must not be conflated with competence in philosophy. The former is a skill or attitude. The book refers to this peculiar attitude as the recognition of one’s epistemic position.
Reviews
“In The Embodied Philosopher, Konrad Werner courageously blazes a new trail in metaphilosophy. His approach is bottom-up and seeks to clear up our confusion over the role that intuitions play in philosophical argumentation. In this groundbreaking work, the reader takes delivery of not only how to contend with deep philosophical problems but how to generate the right sort of questions to ask for one to be “doing” philosophy. Anyone from undergraduate to specialist with an interest in metaphilosophy will benefit from Werner’s discussion.”
Joseph Ulatowski, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Konrad Werner works as adjunct professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His interests span general ontology as well as applied ontologies in such areas as theoretical biology, cognitive science and the social sciences (especially economics). He is interested in the ontological foundations of the embodied mind paradigm and enactivism. His works have been published in Synthese,Topoi, Adaptive Behavior, Philosophia, Philosophical Papers, Constructivist Foundations, among other places.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Embodied Philosopher
Book Subtitle: Living in Pursuit of Boundary Questions
Authors: Konrad Werner
Series Title: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79964-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79963-2Published: 31 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79966-3Published: 31 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79964-9Published: 30 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2959
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2967
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 228
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, general, Phenomenology