{"title":"Can an Enactivist Approach Entail the Extended Conscious Mind","authors":"Qian-zhi Wu","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-23624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-23624","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the enactivist attempt to entail the hypothesis of extended conscious mind (ECM). The enactists suggest that conscious experience is a relational interaction between the subject and the external environment; this personal-level description of conscious experience naturally entails an extended sub-personal characterization of the material basis of conscious experience (i.e. the ECM). However, in this paper, I am going to argue that the enactivist description at the personal level is still open to an internalist challenge at the sub-personal level. In response to this challenge, I suggest combining enactivism with the concept of predictive processing, delineating a sub-personal characterization of conscious experience that corresponds to the enactivist interpretation at the personal level.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"1 1","pages":"48-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88397142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reference in Formal Semantics and Natural Language: A Methodological Route","authors":"F. Boccuni","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-24969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-24969","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I will tackle the notion of reference of singular terms in the light of a classic analytic divide, i.e. whether its analysis, like the analysis of other basic notions, should be carried out in natural language or in the semantics of formal frameworks. I will incline toward the latter strategy, and consider reference in classical first-order logic as the simplest framework in which to investigate reference.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"1 1","pages":"24-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89404741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filosofia del linguaggio femminista, atti linguistici e riduzione al silenzio","authors":"Laura Caponetto","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-24978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-24978","url":null,"abstract":"In anni recenti, la teoria degli atti linguistici di Austin e stata impiegata in ambito di filosofia del linguaggio femminista per dar corpo alla nozione di riduzione al silenzio, messa originariamente in campo da MacKinnon nel quadro del dibattito su pornografia e censura. L’idea, sostenuta da piu voci, e che certi materiali pornografici contribuiscano a creare un clima comunicativo ostile alle donne, che impedisce loro di compiere certi atti illocutori – primo fra tutti, l’atto del rifiuto di avances sessuali. Nel presente lavoro, metto a confronto due declinazioni della nozione di riduzione al silenzio, offerte rispettivamente da Hornsby e Langton e da McGowan. Offro, inoltre, un’analisi inedita del rifiuto che inficia parzialmente la proposta di McGowan. L’obiettivo e quello di fornire uno spaccato di come la teoria austiniana possa essere adoperata, a mo’ di “cassetta degli attrezzi”, per portare alla luce forme di ingiustizia discorsiva passate largamente inosservate.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"69 1","pages":"146-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79269991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways of Perceiving and Mapping Human Cognition through Art","authors":"Ancuta Mortu","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-23623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-23623","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the question of how art might reveal important aspects of human cognition by taking as a starting point Alva Noe’s book Strange Tools. Art and Human Nature (2015). I argue that the enactive approach defended in this book has strong affinities with some recent art-historical approaches that take their cue from cognitive neuroscience, such as neuroarthistory (Onians, 2016). My main claim is that the extended mind thesis, which is implied in both approaches, fails to capture important aspects of the cognitive underpinnings of artistic practices. Finally, I bring into focus Noe’s ambiguous position with respect to the role of perception in aesthetic appreciation. What good comes from distinguishing between various ways of seeing while at the same time holding that art appreciation is a matter of value and judgment rather than perception and response?","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"33 1","pages":"38-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89904910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spatial Experience of Musical Sources: Two Case Studies","authors":"E. D. Bona","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-23668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-23668","url":null,"abstract":"When listening to specific musical compositions in which physical space is employed with an aesthetic role, we can hear sound sources` spatial properties in the same way as we do it in the case of environmental sound sources. In this essay, I will expand the application of a model for the spatial experience of sound sources to the experience of listening to the musical sound sources of two musical compositions by the Italian composer Luigi Nono. In order to do that, I will briefly summarize how we experience sound sources` spatial properties in the case of environmental sounds; I will then mention the different kinds of physical space which we might be able to hear in the case of musical listening, and I will finally analyze Luigi Nono’s “Hay Que Caminar” Sonando (1989) for two violins and La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (1988) for solo violin and 8-track tape to show how the model of the experience of environmental sound sources applies also to these musical cases.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"113 1","pages":"180-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91173334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is the Phenomenological Approach? Revisiting Intentional Explication","authors":"D. Moran","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-24973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-24973","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I outline the main features of the phenomenological approach, focusing on the central themes of intentionality, embodiment, empathy, intersubjectivity, sociality and the life-world. I argue that phenomenology is primarily a philosophy of intentional explication that identifies the a priori, structural correlations between subjectivity and all forms of constituted objectivities apprehended in their horizonal contexts. Intentional description reveals the structurally necessary, meaning-informing interactions between embodied subjectivity (already caught in the nexus of intersubjectivity) in the context of embeddedness in the temporal, historical, and cultural life-world. I shall defend phenomenology as a holistic approach that rightfully defends the role of subjectivity in the constitution of objectivity and recognizes the inherent limitations of all forms of naturalism, objectivism and scientism.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"29 1","pages":"72-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74942036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Methods of Philosophy","authors":"Stefano Bacin, F. Boccuni","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-24967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-24967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"10 1","pages":"10-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82004758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art as Complement of Philosophy","authors":"E. Sacchi, F. Forlè","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-23620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-23620","url":null,"abstract":"Art and aesthetic experience, as well as the nature of depiction, representations and images, are crucial topics in the ongoing multifaceted debate at the interface between philosophy of perception, aesthetics, philosophy of mind and neuroscience. This issue collects the papers presented at San Raffaele Spring School of Philosophy and International Conference 2017 and investigates the mentioned topics, together with other related ones, by locating them in the more general framework concerning the relation between perception and cognition. In this introductory chapter, we provide some sketches of this multidisciplinary field of inquiry together with an overview of the materials collected in the issue.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"118 1","pages":"10-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87898358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can movement be depicted","authors":"Nick Young, C. Calabi","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-23667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-23667","url":null,"abstract":"It is natural to describe many pictures as of movement. We might for example say that a painting is of a horse rearing up, or a dog scurry along the pavement. The topic of this paper is how this “of” should be understood. Can a static picture depict movement, or is movement merely represented by, or suggested by, pictures, in some non-pictorial way? We argue that movement can be depicted and not merely represented. We examine three different views put forward by Le Poidevin, and use his third as a basis for our own view of movement depiction, which is a version of Hopkins’s experienced resemblance theory of depiction.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"57 1","pages":"170-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79110557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways to Be Concerned with Gender in Philosophy","authors":"M. Sbisà","doi":"10.13128/PHE_MI-24977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/PHE_MI-24977","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, some (non-exhaustive) ways in which philosophy can tackle gender are presented and examined. Starting from mainly negative critical stances and proceeding towards more positive approaches, the following ways to tackle gender are distinguished: the critique of gender through discourse analysis; the critique of gender essentialism; research on how gender concepts work; reflection upon how gender issues relate to issues of intersubjective recognition. The first three ways, although giving important contributions about how gender is conceived of, do not seem to give firm grounds to the rejection of gender discrimination, the refutation of essentialist beliefs about the genders, and the neutralization of the normative import of gender concepts. As a fourth way, I propose considering gendered subjectivity in the context of the dynamics of intersubjective relations, framing it in a view of intersubjective recognition as a basic process in human life. In this perspective, gender issues constitute a context in which people’s capability and willingness to recognize others as subjects, and specifically human persons, is tested.","PeriodicalId":37133,"journal":{"name":"Phenomenology and Mind","volume":"9 1","pages":"132-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80724929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}