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138Varieties of extended emotionsPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4): 533-555. 2014.I offer a preliminary defense of the hypothesis of extended emotions (HEE). After discussing some taxonomic considerations, I specify two ways of parsing HEE: the hypothesis of bodily extended emotions (HEBE), and the hypothesis of environmentally extended emotions (HEEE). I argue that, while both HEBE and HEEE are empirically plausible, only HEEE covers instances of genuinely extended emotions. After introducing some further distinctions, I support one form of HEEE by appealing to different str…Read more
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124Selves beyond the skin: Watsuji, “betweenness”, and self-loss in solitary confinement and dementiaJournal of Consciousness Studies. forthcoming.I develop Tetsurō Watsuji’s relational model of the self as “betweenness”. I argue that Watsuji’s view receives support from two case studies: solitary confinement and dementia. Both clarify the constitutive interdependence between the self and the social and material contexts of “betweenness” that define its lifeworld. They do so by providing powerful examples of what happens when the support and regulative grounding of this lifeworld is restricted or taken away. I argue further that Watsuji’s …Read more
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73Making Space for Creativity: Niche Construction and the Artist’s StudioJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (3). 2022.It is increasingly acknowledged that creativity cannot be fully understood without considering the setting where it takes place. Building on this premise, we use the concepts of niche construction, scaffolding, coupling, and functional integration to expound on the environmentally situated nature of painters’ studio work. Our analysis shows studios to be multi-resource niches that are customized by artists to support various capacities, states, and actions crucial to painting. When at work in th…Read more
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44Music-animated body. Interview with Joel KruegerAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (1): 211-216. 2011.
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8Loving Nature with Candiotto and WatsujiConstructivist Foundations 17 (3): 203-205. 2022.Open peer commentary on the article “Loving the Earth by Loving a Place: A Situated Approach to the Love of Nature” by Laura Candiotto. Abstract: I suggest that Candiotto’s situated approach to the love of nature can be enriched by Tetsuroˉ Watsuji’s analysis of fuˉdo (“climate and culture”) and aidagara (“betweenness. I briefly introduce these ideas and indicate how they might fit with Candiotto’s project.
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Ethical education as bodily training: Kitaro Nishida’s moral phenomenology of “acting-intuition.”In Roger T. Ames & Peter D. Hershock (eds.), Educations and their Purposes: A Conversation Among Cultures, Hawaii University Press. pp. 325-334. 2008.
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Agency, environmental scaffolding, and the development of eating disordersIn Christian Tewes & Giovanni Stanghellini (eds.), Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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Areas of Interest
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Japanese Philosophy |
William James |
John Dewey |
Asian Philosophy |
American Pragmatism, Misc |
Musical Experience |