Embodied Meanings
Title | Embodied Meanings PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Coleman Danto |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1995-09-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780374524586 |
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason
Title | Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Johnson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2017-11-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022650039X |
Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values. A brief account of Johnson’s own intellectual journey, through which we track some of the most important discoveries in the field over the past forty years, sets the stage. Subsequent chapters set out Johnson’s important role in embodied cognition theory, including his cofounding (with George Lakoff) of conceptual metaphor theory and, later, their theory of bodily structures and processes that underlie all meaning, conceptualization, and reasoning. A detailed account of how meaning arises from our physical engagement with our environments provides the basis for a nondualistic, nonreductive view of mind that he sees as most congruous with the latest cognitive science. A concluding section explores the implications of our embodiment for our understanding of knowledge, reason, and truth. The resulting book will be essential for all philosophers dealing with mind, thought, and language.
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason
Title | Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Johnson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2017-11-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022650025X |
Introduction: bringing the body to mind -- Cognitive science and Dewey's theory of mind, thought, and language -- Cowboy bill rides herd on the range of consciousness -- We are live creatures: embodiment, American pragmatism, and the cognitive organism / Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer -- The meaning of the body -- The philosophical significance of image schemas -- Action, embodied meaning, and thought -- Knowing through the body -- Embodied realism and truth incarnate -- Why the body matters
Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation
Title | Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvie Bissonnette |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 493 |
Release | 2019-03-11 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1351054449 |
This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds. As we interact more and more with animated characters and avatars in everyday media consumption, it has become vital to investigate the ways that animated environments influence our perception of the liberal humanist subject. This book is the first to apply recent research on the application of the embodied mind thesis to our understanding of embodied engagement with nonhumans and cyborgs in animated media, analyzing works by Émile Cohl, Hayao Miyazaki, Tim Burton, Norman McLaren, the Quay Brothers, Pixar, and many others. Drawing on the breakthroughs of modern brain science to argue that animated media broadens the viewer’s perceptual reach, this title offers a welcome contribution to the growing literature at the intersection of cognitive studies and film studies, with a perspective on animation that is new and original. ‘Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation’ will be essential reading for researchers of Animation Studies, Film and Media Theory, Posthumanism, Video Games, and Digital Culture, and will provide a key insight into animation for both undergraduate and graduate students. Because of the increasing importance of visual effect cinema and video games, the book will also be of keen interest within Film Studies and Media Studies, as well as to general readers interested in scholarship in animated media.
Embodied Collective Memory
Title | Embodied Collective Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Rafael F. Narváez |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0761858792 |
The human body is not a given fact-it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew.
Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games
Title | Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games PDF eBook |
Author | Kathrin Fahlenbrach |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2015-10-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317531213 |
In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in language, but in audio visual media well. This is all the more evident in entertainment media, which strategically "sell" their products by addressing their viewers’ immediate, reflexive understanding through pictures, sounds, and language. This volume applies cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) to film, television, and video games in order to analyze the embodied aesthetics and meanings of those moving images.
Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines
Title | Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines PDF eBook |
Author | Ipke Wachsmuth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 509 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0199231753 |
Communication is not just about the transfer of verbal information. Gestures, facial expressions, intonation and body language are all major sources of information during conversation. This book presents a new perspective on communication, one that will help us to better understand humans, and also to build machines that can communicate.