Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scarinzi, Alfonsina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Contributions To Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 73
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Aesthetics.; Phenomenology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.

The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic “Cartesian” paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assum...