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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255223903321

Autore

Dellantonio Sara

Titolo

Internal Perception : The Role of Bodily Information in Concepts and Word Mastery / / by Sara Dellantonio, Luigi Pastore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-662-55763-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 366 p. 9 illus.)

Collana

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, , 2192-6255 ; ; 40

Disciplina

599.804188

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Cognitive psychology

Artificial intelligence

Philosophy of Mind

Cognitive Psychology

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

First Person Access to Mental States -- The Misleading Aspects of the Mind/Computer Analogy -- Semantic Competence from the Inside: Conceptual Architecture and Composition -- In the Beginning There Were Categories -- Internal States: From Headache to Anger: Conceptualization and Semantic Mastery -- The ‘Proprioceptive’ Component of Abstract Concepts -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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