The Situated Mind and the Space of Reasons

On the Match and Mismatch between Pragmatism and Phenomenology

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ID13002158
AuthorsDanilo Manca (0000-0003-2671-2455, University of Pisa, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume14
Issue2
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2036-4091 • E-ISSN: 2036-4091
PublisherAssociazione Pragma (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.4000/ejpap.3000
OpenAlexW4306760120
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

In this article I discuss the primacy that, following Sellars, Robert Brandom ascribes to the intersubjective and discursive space of reasons over all other processes in which the human mind is involved. I will compare Brandom’s perspective with that of the situated approach to the study of mind. At first, my aim is to show that the origin of intentionality has to be found in the sphere of sentience and the living body. Second, by comparing the enactivist account of language that derives from the naturalization of Husserl’s phenomenology with the neo-pragmatist approach to the linguistic turn, I argue for a heuristic primacy owing to the linguistic practice of giving and asking for reasons. This allows me to reflect with a meta-philosophical approach on to what extent two families of views such as pragmatism and phenomenology, with their different variants, interact in the attempt to blend things together, i.e., nature and culture; mind and world; and what happens inside the human body and what happens outside it

Epistemology · Pragmatism · Situated · Action Observation and Synchronization · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity · Artificial Intelligence

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