Body Anthropology and Cognitive Sciences: embedded-situational approach

Abstract

From the Cognitive Sciences we propose to considersome of the instances exceedances of oppositions between bodies - mind to account for how the mind "speaks" through the body. In this way we look at the "interface zone" that occurs between the anthropology of the body and the Cognitive Sciences, in response to the limits and scope that between these two disciplines can meet. We assume that the new theoretical framework of Cognitive Science, which can be included in what we call "situated
approach / embedded / embodied of the mind", could provide epistemological scaffolding suitable for analysis of anthropological practice. We analyze some philosophical perspectives more relevant, especially following M. Merleau Ponty, F. Varela and H. Maturana, taken together as the most appropriate scenario where we can analyze critically "anthropology the and from the bodies".

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