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867Ontogenesis of the socially extended mindCognitive Systems Research 25 40-46. 2013.I consider the developmental origins of the socially extended mind. First, I argue that, from birth, the physical interventions caregivers use to regulate infant attention and emotion (gestures, facial expressions, direction of gaze, body orientation, patterns of touch and vocalization, etc.) are part of the infant’s socially extended mind; they are external mechanisms that enable the infant to do things she could not otherwise do, cognitively speaking. Second, I argue that these physical interv…Read more
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1389Enacting Musical ContentIn Riccardo Manzotti (ed.), Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin, Imprint Academic. pp. 63-85. 2011.This chapter offers the beginning of an enactive account of auditory experience—particularly the experience of listening sensitively to music. It investigates how sensorimotor regularities grant perceptual access to music qua music. Two specific claims are defended: (1) music manifests experientially as having complex spatial content; (2) sensorimotor regularities constrain this content. Musical content is thus brought to phenomenal presence by bodily exploring structural features of music. We e…Read more
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428Levinasian reflections on somaticity and the ethical selfInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51 (6). 2008.In this article, I attempt to bring some conceptual clarity to several key terms and foundational claims that make up Levinas's body-based conception of ethics. Additionally, I explore ways that Levinas's arguments about the somatic basis of subjectivity and ethical relatedness receive support from recent empirical research. The paper proceeds in this way: First, I clarify Levinas's use of the terms “sensibility”, “subjectivity”, and “proximity” in Otherwise than Being: or Beyond Essence . Next,…Read more
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1109Direct Social PerceptionIn Albert Newen, Leon De Bruin & Shaun Gallagher (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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4991Emotions and Other MindsIn Rudiger Campe & Julia Weber (eds.), Interiority/Exteriority: Rethinking Emotion, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 324-350. 2014.
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550The space between us: embodiment and intersubjectivity in Watsuji and LevinasIn Leah Kalmanson, Frank Garrett & Sarah Mattice (eds.), Levinas and Asian Thought, Duquesne University Press. pp. 53-78. 2013.This essay brings Emmanuel Levinas and Watsuji Tetsurō into constructive philosophical engagement. Rather than focusing primarily on interpretation — admittedly an important dimension of comparative philosophical inquiry — my intention is to put their respective views to work, in tandem, and address the problem of the embodied social self.1 Both Watsuji and Levinas share important commonalities with respect to the embodied nature of intersubjectivity —commonalities that, moreover, put both thin…Read more
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469Dimensions of bodily subjectivityPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 8 (3): 279-283. 2009.
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702Losing social space: Phenomenological disruptions of spatiality and embodiment in Moebius Syndrome and SchizophreniaIn Jack Reynolds & Ricky Sebold (eds.), Phenomenology and Science, Palgracve Macmillan. forthcoming.We argue that a phenomenological approach to social space, as well as its relation to embodiment and affectivity, is crucial for understanding how the social world shows up as social in the first place—that is, as affording different forms of sharing, connection, and relatedness. We explore this idea by considering two cases where social space is experientially disrupted: Moebius Syndrome and schizophrenia. We show how this altered sense of social space emerges from subtle disruptions of embodim…Read more
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Areas of Interest
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Japanese Philosophy |
William James |
John Dewey |
Asian Philosophy |
American Pragmatism, Misc |
Musical Experience |