Georg Theiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1713041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georg Theiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Theiner |
| SIGNATURE | THEINER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7632-0412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Mind-Technology Problem in the Age of GenAI: Introduction to the Special Issue
The “Ontological Complicity” of Habitus and Field
This chapter approaches the work of the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, from the point of view of embodied, extended, and distributed cognition. The concepts that form Bourdieu’s central dyad, habitus and field , are remarkably consonant with externalist views. Habitus is a form of knowledge that is not only embodied but fundamentally environment-dependent, and field is a distributed network of cognitively active positions that serves not on…
Extended Mind
The “extended mind” (EM) thesis asserts that cognitive processes are not bound by the skull or even skin of biological individuals, but actively incorporate environmental structures such as symbols, tools, artifacts, media, cultural practices, norms, groups, or institutions. By distributing cognition across space, time, and people in canny ways, we circumvent or overcome the biological limitations of our brains. Human beings are creative, albeit …
Causing Actions
Book Review| April 01 2002 Causing Actions Paul M. Pietroski, Causing Actions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.viii, 274. Georg Theiner; Georg Theiner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Timothy O'Connor Timothy O'Connor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 291–294. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-2-291 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Causing Actions
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Causing Actions
Book Review| April 01 2002 Causing Actions Paul M. Pietroski, Causing Actions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.viii, 274. Georg Theiner; Georg Theiner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Timothy O'Connor Timothy O'Connor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 291–294. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-2-291 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Causing Actions
Extended Mind
The “extended mind” (EM) thesis asserts that cognitive processes are not bound by the skull or even skin of biological individuals, but actively incorporate environmental structures such as symbols, tools, artifacts, media, cultural practices, norms, groups, or institutions. By distributing cognition across space, time, and people in canny ways, we circumvent or overcome the biological limitations of our brains. Human beings are creative, albeit …
The “Ontological Complicity” of Habitus and Field
This chapter approaches the work of the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, from the point of view of embodied, extended, and distributed cognition. The concepts that form Bourdieu’s central dyad, habitus and field , are remarkably consonant with externalist views. Habitus is a form of knowledge that is not only embodied but fundamentally environment-dependent, and field is a distributed network of cognitively active positions that serves not on…
The Mind-Technology Problem in the Age of GenAI: Introduction to the Special Issue
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (1 works) · Analytic philosophy (1 works)