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Author Etzelmüller, Gregor, 1971-

Title Embodiment in evolution and culture / edited by Gregor Etzelmüller and Christian Tewes.

Publication Info. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 383 pages)
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Note Papers of a conference held December, 2014, in Heidelberg.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents 1. Philosophical concepts and perspectives of embodiment -- 2. The embodied evolution of symbolic competence -- 3. Embodiment as a bridging concept for evolutionary and historical anthropology -- 4. The mutual intertwinement of nature and culture.
Summary From its beginnings, the theory of evolution has unsettled fundamental anthropological assumptions about the place of human beings in nature. The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered by the philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century. Their attempts were to hold on even more resolutely to the special status of humans as beings 'open towards the world'. Today, evolutionary and philosophical anthropology have moved closer together via the paradigm of embodiment. Building on embodied cognitive science, this volume aims to establish how far the human mind and human cultural cognition can be attributed to the structures of human existence, structures which have emerged in the course of evolution and have in turn been affected by culture. The traditional dualism of nature and culture is transformed into an explanation of an evolutionary process in which body and mind are understood to be intertwined and mutually constitutive.
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Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- Congresses.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
Ethnology -- Congresses.
Ethnology -- Congresses.
Mind and body -- Congresses.
Mind and body.
Cognition -- Congresses.
Cognition.
Anthropology -- Congresses.
Anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology -- Congresses.
Philosophical anthropology.
Indexed Term Philosophy.
History of philosophy.
Anthropology.
evolution.
nature.
Darwinism.
embodiment.
cognitive science.
philosophy of science.
PHI035000.
SOC002010.
SOC002000.
QDH.
JHMC.
QD.
JHM.
QDT.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Etzelmüller, Gregor, 1971- editor.
Tewes, Christian, 1972- editor.
ISBN 3161549015 (electronic book)
9783161549014 (electronic book)
9783161547362 (electronic book)
3161547365 (electronic book)
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