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Knowing without Thinking

Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background

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Editors:
  1. Zdravko Radman

    1. Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, University of Split, Croatia

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (NDPCS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introductory Essay: The Mystery of the Background qua Background

    1. Introductory Essay: The Mystery of the Background qua Background

      • Hubert L. Dreyfus
      Pages 1-10

  3. Themes from Dreyfus and Searle

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Ground-Level Intelligence: Action-Oriented Representation and the Dynamics of the Background

      • Massimiliano Cappuccio, Michael Wheeler
      Pages 13-36

    3. Exposing the Background: Deep and Local

      • Daniel D. Hutto
      Pages 37-56

    4. The Background as Intentional, Conscious, and Nonconceptual

      • Michael Schmitz
      Pages 57-82

    5. Social Cognition, the Chinese Room, and the Robot Replies

      • Shaun Gallagher
      Pages 83-97

    6. Contesting John Searle’s Social Ontology: Institutions and Background

      • Joseph Margolis
      Pages 98-115

    7. Music and the Background

      • Daniel A. Schmicking
      Pages 116-138

  4. The Further Unfolding of the Phenomenon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Implicit Precision

      • Eugene T. Gendlin
      Pages 141-166

    3. Enkinaesthesia: The Essential Sensuous Background for Co-Agency

      • Susan A. J. Stuart
      Pages 167-186

    4. Steps Entailed in Foregrounding the Background: Taking the Challenge of Languaging Experience Seriously

      • Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
      Pages 187-205

    5. The Body as Background: Pragmatism and Somaesthetics

      • Richard Shusterman
      Pages 206-223

    6. The Background: A Tool of Potentiality

      • Zdravko Radman
      Pages 224-242

    7. Embodied Technology as Implicit Background of Modern Civilization

      • Klaus Mainzer
      Pages 243-251

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 253-256
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About this book

A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus, but also make significant contribution in bringing the discussion beyond the classical confines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, University of Split, Croatia

    Zdravko Radman

About the editor

MASSIMILIANO CAPPUCCIO Post-doctoral researcher affiliated with the Neurophilosophy Lab of the State University of Milan, Italy HUBERT L. DREYFUS Professor of Philosophy atUniversity of California, Berkeley, USA SHAUN GALLAGHER holds the Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA. He has secondary appointments the University of Hertfordshire, UK, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Central Florida, USA EUGENE T. GENDLIN American philosopher and psychologist, taught philosophy at the University of Chicago for many years DANIEL D. HUTTO Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK KLAUS MAINZER Professor of the Philosophy of Science, Director of the Carl von Linde-Akademie at the Technische Universität Munich, Germany JOSEPH MARGOLIS Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, USA DANIEL A. SCHMICKING Research Associate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany MICHAEL SCHMITZ Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Germany MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE Courtesy Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA RICHARD SHUSTERMAN Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, USA SUSAN A. J. STUART Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UK MICHAEL WHEELER Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowing without Thinking

  • Book Subtitle: Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background

  • Editors: Zdravko Radman

  • Series Title: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230368064

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28513-2Published: 14 February 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33025-6Published: 01 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-36806-4Published: 14 February 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2959

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2967

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 256

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology

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