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Body, Language and Mind Volume1: Embodiment ≥ Cognitive Linguistics Research 35.1 Editors Dirk Geeraerts Rene´ Dirven John R.Taylor Honorary editor Ronald W. Langacker Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Body, Language and Mind Volume 1: Embodiment Edited by Tom Ziemke Jordan Zlatev Roslyn M. Frank Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York MoutondeGruyter(formerlyMouton,TheHague) isaDivisionofWalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,Berlin (cid:2)(cid:2) Printedonacid-freepaper whichfallswithin theguidelinesoftheANSI toensurepermanenceanddurability. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Body, language, and mind. Volume 1, Embodiment / edited by Tom Ziemke,JordanZlatev,RoslynM.Frank. p.cm.(cid:2)(Cognitivelinguisticsresearch;35.1) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-3-11-019327-5(hardcover:alk.paper) 1. Language and languages (cid:2) Philosophy. 2. Mind and body. 3. Semiotics. I. Ziemke, T. (Tom), 1969(cid:2) II. Zlatev, Jordan. III.Frank,RoslynM. P107.B63 2007 401(cid:2)dc22 2007028708 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.d-nb.de. ISBN 978-3-11-019327-5 ISSN 1861-4132 (cid:2) Copyright2007byWalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,D-10785Berlin Allrightsreserved,includingthoseoftranslationintoforeignlanguages.Nopartofthisbook maybereproducedortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical, including photocopy, recording, or anyinformation storage and retrieval system, without permissioninwritingfromthepublisher. PrintedinGermany Table ofcontents Listofcontributors VII Introduction: Thebodyeclectic Tom ZiemkeandRoslynM. Frank 1 SectionA: Historicalroots We are live creatures: Embodiment, AmericanPragmatism andthe cognitive organism MarkJohnson andTim Rohrer 17 Bringingthebodybackto life: James Gibson's ecologyofembodiedagency Alan Costall 55 Fromthemeaningofembodimentto the embodiment ofmeaning: A studyinphenomenological semiotics Goran Sonesson 85 Embodimentand social interaction: A cognitive scienceperspective Jessica Lindblom andTom Ziemke 129 SectionB: Bodyand mind Representingactions andfunctional properties inconceptual spaces Peter Giirdenfors 167 Frompre-representational cognitionto language TakashiIkegami andJordan Zlatev 197 vi Tableofcontents Making sense ofembodiedcognition: Simulationtheories ofsharedneural mechanisms for sensorimotor andcognitiveprocesses HenrikSvensson, Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke 241 Phenomenological andexperimental contributions to understandingembodiedexperience Shaun Gallagher 271 Section C: Body,language and culture Embodiment, language, andmimesis Jordan Zlatev 297 Thebodyinspace: Dimensionsofembodiment TimRohrer 339 Onthebiosemiotics ofembodimentand ourhumancyborgnature ClausEmmeche 379 Embodimentand self-organizationofhumancategories: A case studyofspeech LucSteels andBartdeBoer 411 Communicationas situated, embodiedpractice Wolff-MichaelRoth 431 Index 457 List ofcontributors Bart de Boer did a Master's degree in computer science at the Rijksuni versiteit Leiden (1994) and a PhD in artificial intelligence at the AI lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brusse1 (1999) under professor Luc Steels. He has worked as apostdoc inBrussels and atthe University ofWashington under professor Patricia Kuhl. He has also performed linguistic fieldwork in Ne pal. His main research interest is in computer mode1ing the evolution of speech. He is currently working as an assistant professor in cognitive ro botics atthe RijksuniversiteitLeiden. e-mail: [email protected] Alan Costall is Professor ofTheoretical Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, England. His research interests are wide, but are held together by a commitment to interdiscip1inarity, and a broadly ecological or mutu alistperspective. He has been increasingly involved in work on the history of modem psychology and its relations (or lack of them) to other disci plines. Recentpublications include: A. Costa11 and o. Dreier, (eds.), Doing Things with Things. (London: Ashgate, 2006); A. Costa11, I. Leudar, andV. Reddy. (2006) "Failingto see the irony in 'mind-reading.'" Theory & Psy chology 16(2): 163-167; Bard, K.A., M. Myowa-Yamakoshi, M. To monaga, M. Tanaka, A. Costa11, A., and T. Matsuzawa. (2005) "Group differences in the mutual gaze ofchimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)." Devel opmental Psychology 41: 616-624; Rogers, S. D., E. E. Kadar and A. Costa11, A. (2005) "Gaze patterns in the visual control of straight road driving and braking as a function ofspeed and expertise." EcologicalPsy chology 17: 19-38; Costa11, A., and I. Leudar. (2004). "Where is the 'the ory' in theory ofmind?" Theory andPsychology 14: 625-648; Costa11, A., M. Sinico and G. Parovel. (2003) "The concept of 'invariants' and the problem of perceptual constancy." Rivista di Estetica, n.s. 24(3), 49-53; Ost, J., and A. Costa1l. (2002) "MisrememberingBart1ett: A study in serial reproduction."BritishJournal ofPsychology 93: 243-255. e-mail: [email protected] Claus Emmeche is a theoretical biologist, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head ofthe Center for the Philosophy ofNature and Science Studies, 10- viii Listofcontributors catedatthe Niels BohrInstitute, University ofCopenhagen. The Faculty of Science founded the center in 1994 to explore a new and more science related way to do philosophy ofnature, yet keeping a notion ofscience as more than natural science. Emmeche has taught courses in philosophy of biology and philosophy of science and his current research interests in clude biosemiotics, artificial life, ontology, organism/body/cyborg rela tions, and philosophy ofnature. He is active in the Copenhagen biosemi otics school (cf. ReadingHoffmeyer: RethinkingBiology, with Kalevi Kull and Frederik Stjemfelt) and in developing a cluster ofmandatory science studies courses for thebachelorprogrammes inDenmark. e-mail: [email protected] Roslyn M. Frank is Professor Emeritus in the Department ofSpanish and Portuguese at the University ofIowa. She is co-editor ofCognitive Models in Language and Thought: Ideology, Metaphors and Meaning (2003); Language andIdeology, Vol. 2. Cognitive Description Approaches (2001) andhas publishedextensivelyinthe field ofcognitive linguistics as well as in ethnoscience, most particularly in ethnomathematics and ethnoastro nomy. Herresearchonthe Basque language has takenherto Euskal Herria, the Basque Country, where she has done extensive fieldwork and given numerous seminars. In addition she has given presentations on these re searchtopics throughoutEurope. e-mail: [email protected] Shaun Gallagher is Professor and Chair ofPhilosophy and Cognitive Sci ences at the University ofCentral Florida; he has been occasional Visiting Professor at the University ofCopenhagen (2004-2006) and Visiting Sci entistatthe MedicalResearchCouncil's CognitionandBrain SciencesUnit at Cambridge University (1994). He is co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. His research interests include phenomenology and philosophy ofmind, cognitive sciences, her meneutics, theories ofthe selfand personal identity. His most recentbook, How the Body Shapes the Mind, is published by Oxford University Press (2005). He is co-editor ofthe forthcoming Does Consciousness Cause Be havior?AnInvestigation oftheNature ofVolition (MITPress, 2006). He is currently working on several projects, including a co-authored book, The PhenomenologicalMind: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy ofMind and the Cognitive Sciences (Routledge, 2007). His previous books include: Hermeneutics andEducation (1992) and The Inordinance ofTime (1998). Listofcontributors ix He has edited or co-edited volumes including: Ipseity and Alterity: Inter disciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity (2004),· Models of the Self (1999); Hegel, History, and Interpretation (1997). Home page: http:// pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/"-Jgallaghr e-mail: [email protected] Peter Gardenfors is professor of cognitive science at Lund University (Sweden). He leads the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science there (LUCS). He has published numerous books and articles on decision theory, episte mology, beliefrevision, concept formation and the evolution ofcognition (see http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Peter.Gardenfors/bibli02000.html). The most important books are Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States (Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1988); Conceptual Spaces (Bradford Books, MIT Press, 2000); How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution ofThinking (Oxford University Press, 2003); and The Dynamics ofThought (Springer, 2005). e-mail: [email protected] Takashi Ikegami earned his Ph.D in Physics (1989). He works on Artifi cial Life and Complex Systems by simulating computational models. His publications range from self-reproduction, ecological systems, embodied cognition to cognitive linguistics. Some ofhis recent articles are: Ikegami, T. (2005). "Neutral phenotypes as network keystone species." Population Ecology 47: 21-29; Iizuka, H. and T. Ikegami. (2004) "Adaptability and diversity in simulated turn-taking behavior." Artificial Life 10: 361-378; Ikegami, T., and G. Morimoto. (2003) "Chaotic itinerancy in coupled dy namical recognizers." CHAOS 13: 1133-1147; Ikegami, T. (1999). "Evolv ability ofmachines and tapes." J. ArtificialLife and Robotics 3( 4): 242 245; Ikegami, T. and M. Taiji. (1998). "Structures ofpossible worlds in a game of players with internal models." Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica 91: 283-292. e-mail: [email protected] MarkJohnson is Professor ofPhilosophy and Knight Professor ofLiberal Arts and Sciences at the University ofOregon. His research has focused on the philosophical implications ofthe role ofhuman embodiment in mean ing, conceptualization, andreasoning. He is co-author, withGeorge Lakoff, ofMetaphors We Live By (1980) and Philosophy in the Flesh (1999) and author ofThe Body in the Mind (1987) and Moral Imagination (1993). He x Listofcontributors is currently completing a book on the aesthetic dimensions of meaning, drawing on evidence from cognitive science, phenomenology, neurosci ence, and the arts that reveals the origins ofmeaning in felt qualities, sen sorimotorpatterns, andemotions. e-mail: [email protected] Jessica Lindblom is a cognitive science Ph.D. candidate working at the School ofHumanities and Informatics, University ofSkovde, Sweden. She previously received a master's degree in computer science (2001) and bachelor's degree in cognitive science (2000). Her main research interests are social aspects of embodied and situated cognition, and their implica tions to interactive technology. Some ofherpublications, together with her supervisor professor Tom Ziemke, are Lindblom and Ziemke (2003) "So cial situatedness of natural and artificial intelligence. Vygotsky and be yond." Adaptive Behavior 11(2): 79-96, and Lindblom and Ziemke (2005) "Body-in-motion: broadening the social mind." In: Bruno G. Bara, Law rence Barsalou and Monica Bucciarelli (eds), Proceedings ofthe XXVII AnnualConference ofthe Cognitive Science Society, 1284-1289. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. e-mail:[email protected] Tim Rohrer has published extensively on metaphor and embodiment in diverse disciplines for over fifteen years. His work has ranged from ex perimental cognitive neuroscience to information technology policy and from the politics of conflict resolution to the philosophy of language. In addition to the lines of investigation reflected in this volume, he is also researching how metaphors shape attitudes toward wildfire mitigation in the western United States. He is perhaps best known as the founder and maintainer ofthe Center for the Cognitive Science ofMetaphor Online, a collection offormative articles in metaphor theory and cognitive semantics (http://zakros.ucsd.edu;'--.Jtrohrer/metaphor/metaphor.htm). He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oregon and has been a Thomas J. Watson scholar, aFulbrightresearcher at the Center for Semiotic Research in Aarhus, Denmark, and a NllI fellow at the Institute for Neural Compu tationattheUniversityofCaliforniaat SanDiego. Atpresenthe directs the Colorado AdvancedResearchInstitute inBoulder, Colorado. e-mail: [email protected]
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