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- Discusses how bodily information contributes to categorization
- Uses language and specifically semantic competence to understand the internal cognitive processes underlying categorization and conceptualization
- Proposes a distinction between categories and concepts
- Analyzes how abstract concepts as well as concepts describing internal states, emotions are constituted and how people develop semantic competence with respect to the words that denote them
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 40)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 we develop broad categories such as animate vs. inanimate, concepts denoting bodily experiences such as hunger or pain as well as emotions and abstract concepts such as friendship and freedom and in accounting for how we master the meanings of the corresponding words in our language.
Keywords
- Concepts
- Word Mastery
- Mentalism/Antimentalism
- Qualitative Character of Experience
- Mind/computer Analogy
- Interoception
- Proprioception
- Embodiment
- Internal Monitoring System
- Emotion Categorization
- Categorization of Internal States
- Perceptual Schema
- Concepts vs. Categories
- Animate/Inanimate
- Abstract Concepts/terms
- Perceptual vs. Cognitive Theories of Emotion
- Abstract vs. Theoretical
- Semantic Mastery in Autism
- Alexithymia
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Sara Dellantonio
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Department of Education Science, Psychology, Communication Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Luigi Pastore
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Internal Perception
Book Subtitle: The Role of Bodily Information in Concepts and Word Mastery
Authors: Sara Dellantonio, Luigi Pastore
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55763-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-55761-7Published: 27 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-57251-1Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-55763-1Published: 19 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 366
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence