The feeling body : affective science meets the enactive mind

The feeling body : affective science meets the enactive mind / Giovanna Colombetti.

In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science -- the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She argues that enactivism entails...

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Main Author: Colombetti, Giovanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Emotions and cognition.
Affective neuroscience.
Philosophy of mind.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Affective neuroscience
Emotions and cognition
Philosophy of mind
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Table of Contents:
  • Primordial affectivity : Reclaiming a broader and deeper notion of affectivity ; Spinoza's Conatus: striving as the ground of all affects ; Enter the Lived body: from Maine de Biran's experience of effort to Henry's "interior quivering" ; Heidegger's care and moods, and Patočka's "Physiognomic impressions ; Enactive sense making ; Primordial affectivity and affective science
  • The emotions: existing accounts and their problems : The theory of basic emotions (BET) Assessing existing criticisms of BET ; The arbitrariness of the alleged basic emotions ; The problematic unity/disunity debate ; Alternatives to BET and their problems
  • Emotional episodes as dynamical patterns : Fundamental concepts of dynamical systems theory (DST) ; Dynamical affective science ; Implications for the debate on the nature of the emotions ; Discreteness and boundaries ; Moods
  • Reappraising appraisal : Beginnings ; Downplaying the body in the 1960s and 1970s ; Appraisal theory today: the body as a mere interactant ; Eroding the neural boundaries between cognition and emotion ; Enacting appraisal ; Phenomenological connections ; A (brief) comparison with Prinz's "Embodied appraisal"
  • How the body feels in the emotional experience : A taxonomy of bodily feeling Conspicuous bodily feelings in emotion experience ; THe "obscurely felt" body ; Feeling absorbed
  • Ideas for an affective "neuro-physio-phenomenology" : Neurophenomenology in theory and practice ; Neurophenomenology and the study of consciousness ; Affective neuroscience and emotion experience ; Outline of an affective neuro-physio-phenomenological method ; Bodily feelings and emotion experience
  • Feeling others : The experience of the other as a Leib ; PErceiving emotion in expression ; Impressive others ; Feeling close ; Sympathy ; Doing as others do ; Do we mimic others to read their minds? ; Mimicry as a mechanism for social bonding ; Beyond strict mimicry.

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