Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind - Dove, Guy
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We appear to think about the world by means of the same mechanisms that we use to experience it. Yet, abstract concepts like 'democracy,' 'fermion,' 'piety,' 'truth,' and 'zero' represent a clear challenge to this idea. In Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind, Guy Dove contends that abstract concepts are heterogeneous and pose three important challenges to embodied cognition. They force us to ask: How do we generalize beyond the specifics of our experience? How do we think about things that we do not experience directly? How do we adapt our thoughts to specific contexts and tasks? He…mehr

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We appear to think about the world by means of the same mechanisms that we use to experience it. Yet, abstract concepts like 'democracy,' 'fermion,' 'piety,' 'truth,' and 'zero' represent a clear challenge to this idea. In Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind, Guy Dove contends that abstract concepts are heterogeneous and pose three important challenges to embodied cognition. They force us to ask: How do we generalize beyond the specifics of our experience? How do we think about things that we do not experience directly? How do we adapt our thoughts to specific contexts and tasks? He further argues that a successful theory of grounding must embrace multimodal representations, hierarchical architecture, and linguistic scaffolding.
Autorenporträt
Guy Dove is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. He served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Developmental Neuropsychology and Electrophysiology Lab at the University of Louisville from 2002-2003 and taught in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville from 2004-2008. He is a co-author of Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program (2018, with Andreas Elpidorou). He has also published in prominent interdisciplinary journals such as Cognition, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Mind and Language, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, and Trends in Cognitive Science.