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462Embodied Animal Mind and Hand-Signing ChimpanzeesThe Pluralist 6 (3): 25-33. 2011.Chimpanzee language studies have generated much heated controversy, as Roger Fouts can attest from firsthand experience. Perhaps this is because language is usually considered to be what truly distinguishes humans from apes. If chimps can indeed be taught the rudiments of language, then the difference between them and us is not as great as we might have thought. It is a matter of degree rather than kind, a continuity, and our species is not so special after all. The advantage of this continuity …Read more
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345Embodied Mind and the Mimetic Basis for Taking the Role of the OtherIn F. Thomas Burke & Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski (eds.), George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-First Century, Lexington Press. pp. 137. 2013.
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54Environmental Pragmatism and BioregionalismContemporary Pragmatism 9 (1): 67-84. 2012.Bioregionalism can strengthen environmental pragmatism by making it more critical of the status quo and even more environmental, without abandoning pragmatism's democratic aims. It thus answers important objections to pragmatism raised by Robyn Eckersley. Despite some apparent differences, bioregionalism is a form of environmental pragmatism, as it incorporates practical ethics and is committed to pluralism and democratic community. Bryan Norton's environmental pragmatism is already close to a b…Read more
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33The Meaning of the Social Body: Bringing George Herbert Mead to Mark Johnson's Theory of Embodied MindWilliam James Studies 12 (1). 2016.
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16George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-First Century (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.While rooted in careful study of Mead’s original writings and transcribed lectures and the historical context in which that work was carried out, the papers in this volume have brought Mead’s work to bear on contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and political philosophy
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211. Imitation and Taking the Attitude of the OtherIn Hans Joas & Daniel R. Huebner (eds.), The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead, University of Chicago Press. pp. 231-251. 2016.
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