The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262533766 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Giovanna Colombetti is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK
Fausto Caruana said Five Stars. An excellent book and a stimulating alternative to current accounts of affective science and philosophy
(Constructivist Foundations) . (New Ideas in Psychology)Promising and provocative.Colombetti's book is a valuable contribution to this dialogue, a first sustained argument for enactivism as a unified and coherent understanding of the affects. At the same time, she expands emotion theory by exploring the deep affective patterns by which we engage our world at a level that precedes and underlies our conscious emotional experiences. Bodily affect, in a sense that goes deeper than basic emotions, has been underplayed in emotion theory and even in some of the most embodied approaches to cognition. (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)An excellent read in enactivism.Colombetti develops her own enactive approach against the backdrop of careful reviews of other theories.a remarkably clearsource of knowledge for all those who wish to learn more about the mind as an embodied and thoroughly living phenomenon. (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences)
Doing so, she also expands the enactive approach into a further domain of inquiry, one that has more generally been neglected by the embodied-embedded approach in the philosophy of cognitive science.. Drawing on enactivist tools such as dynamical systems theory, the notion of the lived body, neurophenomenology, and phenomenological accounts of empathy, Colombetti advances a novel approach to these traditional issues that does justice to their complexity. She argues that enactivism entails a view of cognition as not just embodied but also intrinsically affective, and she elaborates on the implications of this claim for the study of emotion in psychology and neuroscience. In the course of her discussion, Colombetti focuses on long-debated issues in affective science, including the notion of basic emotions, the nature of appraisal and its relationship to bodily arousal, the place of bodily feelings in emotion experience, the neurophysiological