The Embodiment of Meaning

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, can't be right.

Autorentext

Farid Zahnoun is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of philosophy of mind and cognitive science with an expertise in the topics of mental representation, perception, and the notion of information within theoretical neuroscience. He is currently affiliated with the Free University of Berlin (FU) and the University of Antwerp (UA).

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Mistaking the score for the music: intellectualism and the philosopher's fallacy; 2. Multiple realizability and the irrelevance of matter; 3. The embodiment of meaning; 4. Categorial and particular identity; Intermezzo: six honest serving men; 5. Embodied experience; 6. Psychology as strongly embodied; 7. Embodiment and identity; Epilogue: the significant body; Afterthought on sense-making; References.