Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Rietveld and Kiverstein 2014).This dissertation is a phenomenological account in that I apply the phenomenological method as it has been in particular developed by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time (Heidegger 1962).This means that I provide a careful analysis of phenomena which I then analyze in terms of the conditions of their possibility.This phenomenological account is an account of embodied understanding in that it is only about those forms of understanding that are body-relational.This means that I am concerned here only with those forms of understanding that are responsive to the world in relation to the bodily structures of an agent, her bodily needs and her ability to sense and move.My dissertation identifies and analyzes two central structures of embodied understanding.Embodied understanding is body-relationally spatiotemporally schematic and integrated with affective concern.That embodied understanding is body-relationally spatiotemporally schematic means that embodied understanding exhibits a structure that allows it to be responsive to the experience of a world in space and time that is itself reflective of one's embodied ability to move and sense; i.e. that is reflective of an agent's embodiment (Husserl 1989;Noë 2004;Merleau-Ponty 2012).This responsiveness is possible, since embodied understanding shares characteristics with embodied experience by means of what Kant (1998) called 'schemata'; a priori space and time determinations that allow embodied understanding to respond to the spatial and temporal characteristics of iii experience.That embodied understanding is integrated with affective concerns means that understanding exhibits a structure that enables it to be responsive to a world that is not, as Dreyfus and Taylor (2015) would call it, 'neutral', but that is 'always already familiar', to use Heidegger's (1962) famous phrase (Dreyfus 2007b;Ratcliffe 2010;Noë 2015).This responsiveness is possible, since embodied understanding shares characteristics with embodied experience that are in both cases co-constituted by affective concern.iv
Author: Alexander Albert Jeuk
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2625702624