{"title":"Integrating Enactive and Intercorporeal Approaches to Interaction and Interaction Analysis: d/Deaf Persons and Animals. In Search of the ‘In-Between’ and Adequate Methodologies","authors":"Anne Gelhardt","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.06","url":null,"abstract":"\"How does understanding occur in encounters of living beings? What is experienced by the interaction partners and what happens in the ‘In-Between’? And how can this be captured? In this paper an enactive approach to interaction is proposed with the focus on reciprocal intercorporeal attunement and co-creation of meaning in a specific environment. As alternative framework this approach is applied to the interaction of d/Deaf persons and animals. In the interaction with an animal, verbal communication - which is challenging for d/Deaf persons - is of secondary importance, so this frame is well suited to focus on intercorporeal attunement. In the interaction discourse regarding d/Deaf persons as well as Human-Animal-Interaction the assessment of the interaction process as such and embodied research methodologies are scarcely to be found. With the enactive approach new perspectives on the mechanisms of interaction and the influencing conditions can be opened as well as new approaches to respective research options.\u0000\u0000Keywords: d/Deaf, Human-Animal-Interaction, Intercorporeality, Embodied Cognition, Embodied methodologies, Enactive approach, resonance\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47629094","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 Dialogical Form of Philosophical Practice: Structuring the Discursive Flow in Socratic Dialogue","authors":"Alex Cosmescu","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.02","url":null,"abstract":"\"Based on the transcript of a fragment from a philosophical practice session carried by Oscar Brenifier, I flesh out several aspects of this dialogical form of philosophical practice. First, it is a form of interaction grounded in the interlocutors’ interaffection. Second, the main mechanism of carrying through the dialogic interaction is the practitioner’s repeating the other’s words, writing them down, and then questioning them, thus extracting them from the other’s discursive flow and making them shared objects for an intersubjective gaze. Third, this form of dialogue is asymmetrical: while the other is providing the “content”, the practitioner is responsible for explicating it.\u0000\u0000Keywords: Socratic Dialogue; Philosophical Practice; Dis-cursive Flow; Discourse Analysis; Intersubjectiv-ity\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69210438","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":"Bodily Processing: What Progress Has Been Made in Understanding the Embodiment of Computing Systems?","authors":"Martina Properzi","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.13","url":null,"abstract":"\" In this article I will address the issue of the embodiment of computing sys-tems from the point of view distinctive of the so-called Unconventional Computation, focusing on the paradigm known as Mor-phological Computation. As a first step, I will contextualize Morphological Computa-tion within the disciplinary field of Embod-ied Artificial Intelligence: broadly con-ceived, Embodied Artificial Intelligence may be characterized as embracing both conventional and unconventional ap-proaches to the artificial emulation of natu-ral intelligence. Morphological Computa-tion stands out from other paradigms of unconventional Embodied Artificial Intelli-gence in that it discloses a new, closer kind of connection between embodiment and computation. I will further my investigation by briefly reviewing the state-of-the-art in Morphological Computation: attention will be given to a very recent trend, whose core concept is that of “organic reconfigu-rability”. In this direction, as a final step, two advanced cases of study of organic or living morphological computers will be pre-sented and discussed. The prospect is to shed some light on our title question: what progress has been made in understanding the embodiment of computing systems?\u0000Keywords: Embodied Artificial Intelligence; Morphological Computation; Reservoir Compu-ting Systems; Organic Reconfigurability; 3D Bio-Printed Synthetic Corneas; Xenobots\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69211877","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 World-Relatedness of Affectivity: Heidegger and Richir","authors":"D. Ekweariri","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.04","url":null,"abstract":"\" My investigation reveals that Heidegger’s account of affectivity – though his programmatical determination included an ontical dimension or otherwise lived, personal experiences – is overshadowed by a dense ontology that cannot enable real phenomenal experience. This is why he could not account for other affective states such as emotions, feel-ings and the role of the body in affectivity. Besides, in that account we are lost when we seek to answer the question of whether moods are “one” or “many”. My aim is to point out how these deficiencies in Heidegger’s account of mood could be overcome in Richir’s account of affectivity, where indeterminate background feelings (affections) could give rise to a deter-minate and occurent emotion (affects). The advantage of this move is a rich ontic account of affectivity where not only the body but also sense/meaning of affective episodes play a robust role in an encounter of world events. If Richir reproached Heidegger for existential solipsism, one could now reproach the former for existentiell/phenomenal solipsism. In the end I suggest that these two core but opposite aspects of affectivity (the ontological and the ontic) belong to the same reality: Dasein is not just in the world (ontology), but also the world is in Dasein (ontic/phenomenological).\u0000Keywords: mood, affection, affect, Heidegger’s ontology, Richir’s Leib and sense.\u0000\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69210558","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":"La parole operante comme specification de l’intentionnalite motrice chez Merleau-Ponty","authors":"Jan Halák","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.07","url":null,"abstract":"\"Operative Speech as a Specification of Motor Intentionality in Merleau-Ponty. This paper outlines Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of higher-order cognition as a fundamentally embodied process that is enacted by motor subject situated in natural and cultural environment. More specifically, I exemplify Merleau-Ponty’s interdisciplinary approach to cognition on his interpretations of motor intentionality, operative speech, and mathematical reasoning, which are based on neuropathology, linguistics, and gestalt psychology, respectively. In this analysis, I aim to show that the body is involved in cognition as an operator of the phenomenal structuration of the environment even at the level of linguistic, rational, and abstract experience.\u0000\u0000Keywords: Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; embodied cognition; higher-order cognition; motor intentionality; philosophy of language; mathematical reasoning.\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69211449","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 Constraints of Embodiment and Language-Thought Relations","authors":"P. Mondal","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.11","url":null,"abstract":"\"This paper aims to impugn the magnified role of specific natural languages in structuring and shaping cognition in the context of language-thought relations. Since language-thought interactions are being increasingly explored in different kinds of empirical studies showing or attempting to show context-specific or general influences of language over thought and thinking, there is reason to tame the excesses of language-specific influences over thought, thinking and cognition. In this regard, any context-specific influences of languages over thought and thinking in being grounded in certain modes/modalities of cognition must be governed by the constraints of body-world interactions that operate on modes/modalities of cognition. Thus, this paper will argue that language-specific influences over thought, thinking and cognition are possible to the extent that they are permitted by the constraints of embodiment. \u0000\u0000Keywords: language; thought; thinking; embodiment; cognition\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69211537","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":"Teaching Philosophy and Enactivism","authors":"Andrei Simionescu-Panait","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.14","url":null,"abstract":"\"The paper presents a concise history of enactivism in education, especially in mathematics education. Cases described by Davis’s, Proulx and Simmt’s work showcase the idea that enactivism is a viable alternative to constructivism or to classical views both in terms of practical teaching and theoretical models related to the process of learning. The idea that the student should solve a fixed problem, discover the universally correct solution, and eventually store that correct solution to find many other universally correct solutions to other fixed problems reduces the student to a very simple mechanism aimed at informational efficiency. This problem is met by the enactivistic tradition that began with Varela and Maturana’s work, now updated to the aforementioned researchers. Contra the classical perspective, enactivism proposes the idea that the student collaboratively produces the problem, being able to see multiple solutions, and eventually becoming a performer of knowledge. The article takes these ideas developed in mathematics education and finds their use in philosophical education. The article especially focuses on the student’s problem of being unable to link a new philosophical text discussed in class with their intuition. The last part of the article offers a lesson design example. The philosophical design focuses on making the students explore their own thinking regarding the topic about to be discussed by using a philosophy text before introducing the text.\u0000\u0000Keywords: enactivism, phenomenology, philosophy of education, classroom design\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69211950","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 Paradox of Virtual Embodiment: The Body Schema in Virtual Reality Aesthetic Experience","authors":"Sara Incao, C. Mazzola","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.09","url":null,"abstract":"\"New technologies implied in art creation and exhibition are modifying the traditional landmarks on which aesthetics has always focused. In particular, Virtual Reality artworks call the body into question when it comes to living a bodily experience within exhibitions accessible through technological tools that expand the human body’s capabilities and motor potential. The body's status is challenged in its traditional unity, that of a subject of experience living in a world where the spatial configuration is relatively constant. Conversely, in Virtual Reality, the spatial aspect is novel to our body which needs to adapt to unpredicted and disorientating motor schemas. Therefore, the Virtual Reality aesthetic experience takes place into a novel configuration for the human body: hybrid and split into the virtual realm. \u0000\u0000Keywords: Aesthetics; Virtual Reality; Embodiment; Digital art; Bodily awareness\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69211321","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 Sympathy of Experience With Life!” – Understanding Practical Knowledge From Heidegger to Gadamer and Back","authors":"Alina Noveanu","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.12","url":null,"abstract":"\"For both Gadamer’s project of a philosophical hermeneutics as for Heidegger’s early understanding of facticity (Faktizität) as practical knowledge, the problem of application is central and is always linked to the specific conditions under which an individual decides to act within a community. Both also agree on the fact that the sciences of man do involve more than the epistemic subject, this is why the context i.e. the phenomenological concept of ‘world’ becomes part of the understanding process, one that cannot be ignored or transformed into an abstract matter. Understanding is therefore also in a specific way ‘historical’, as the application is dictated by momentary circumstances in life situations, which come before any use of theoretical knowledge and thus do not represent an appendix to theory. While Gadamer continuously insisted on the idea of a practical knowledge (Wissen) that surpasses the separations between theory and praxis, sophia and phronesis, Heidegger radicalized the idea of active thinking as an experience of language in connection to an essential ‘perception’ of Being itself, that goes beyond any subjectivity. The term by which he often characterizes this essential thinking (wesentliches Denken) is Vernehmen: a kind of receptive thinking. This conception of receptive thinking, as some conversations around the Zollikon Seminars and Le Thor/Zähringen will briefly show, lead Heidegger also to some interesting considerations on the human body. \u0000\u0000Keywords: practical knowledge, historicity, life, body, Vernehmen, phenomenological hermeneutics, world.\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69211817","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":"Expérimenter la pensée en schémas-images. Des adolescents s’interrogent « d’où viennent les pensées ? »","authors":"Anda Fournel, J. Simon","doi":"10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.05","url":null,"abstract":"\"Experimenting Thinking in Image Schemas. Teenagers are Wondering “Where Do Thoughts Come From?” An intellectual view of philosophy as an activity focusing on understanding abstract concepts and their relationships deprives philosophical exercise of the participation of the body and senses. If we reject the mind-body dualism, as Dewey, Johnson, etc. did, then we are constantly engaged in interactions with the world and others, and can thus consider the act of thinking from our own experiences. Inspired by an experimentalist conception of school and life, as well as the method of inquiry developed by Dewey, the Philosophy for Children program provides an inquiry process that invites participants to conceptualize and reason philosophically in a collaborative manner. Do these practices implement an embodied cognition? To find out, we selected a discussion as a case study and analyzed it based on the observation that the issue to be discussed by the participants - “where do thoughts come from?” contains two image schemas: path (come from) and source (where). We have noted a variety and a significant number of expressions (“they come from within”, “they come from what happens outside”, etc.) whose analysis enhances a better understanding of how an experience of understanding the origins of our thoughts fits into the discourse and contributes to a collective conceptualization of “thinking”.\u0000\u0000Keywords: image schemas, perceptual experience, conceptualisation, community of philosophical inquiry, experimentalism\u0000\"","PeriodicalId":40516,"journal":{"name":"Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philosophia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69210759","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}