Internal Perception - The Role of Bodily Information in Concepts and Word Mastery (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book investigates how bodily information contributes to categorization processes for at least some conceptual classes and thus to the individual mastery of meanings for at least some word classes. The bodily information considered is mainly that provided by the so-called proprioceptive and interoceptive systems introduced by Sherrington. The authors reconsider this in a new Gibsonian fashion calling it more generally “proprioception�, which indicates the complex of all the bodily signals we are aware of and the qualitative experiences these give rise to. The book shows that proprioceptive information understood in this sense is essential for explaining (among others) how we develop broad categories such as animate vs. inanimate, concepts denoting bodily experiences such as hunger or pain as well as emotions and abstract concepts such as friendship and freedom and in accounting for how we master the meanings of the corresponding words in our language.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 40
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Sara Dellantonio • Luigi Pastore
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	366
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-662-55761-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Computing & IT > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	3-662-55761-4
Barcode:	9783662557617

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