Knowing without Thinking: Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background [Hardcover]

A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus, but also make significant contribution in bringing the discussion beyond the classical confines.Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Z.Radman The Mystery of the Background qua Background; H.L.Dreyfus PART I: ECHOING SEARLE'S AND DREYFUS' VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Ground-Level Intelligence:Action-Oriented Representation and the Dynamics of the Background; M.Cappuccio & M.Wheeler Exposing the Background: Deep and Local; D.D.Hutto The Background as Intentional, Conscious, and Nonconceptual; M.Schmitz Social Cognition, the Chinese Room, and the Robot Replies; S.Gallagher Contesting John's Searle' Social Ontology: Institutions and Background; J.Margolis Music and the Background; D.Schmicking PART II: EXTENDED VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Implicit Precision; E.T.Gendlin Enkinaesthesia: The Essential Sensuous Background for Co-Agency; S.A.J.Stuart Steps Entailed in Foregrounding the Background: Taking the Challenge of Languaging Experience Seriously; M.Sheets-Johnstone The Body as Background: Pragmatism and Somasthetics; R.Shusterman The Background: A Tool of Potentiality; Z.Radman Embodied Technology as Implicit Knowledge of Modern Civilization; K.Mainzer IndexMASSIMILIANO CAPPUCCIO Post-doctoral researcher affiliated with the Neurophilosophy Lab of the State University of Milan, ItalyHUBERT L. DREYFUS Professor of Philosophy atUniversity of California, Berkeley, USASHAUN GALLAGHER holds the Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA. He has secondary appointments the University of Hertfordshire, UK, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Central Florida, USAEUGENE T. GENDLIN American philosopher and psychologist, taught philosophy at the University of Chicago lct