After Cognitivism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. The Pragmatic Dimension: A Reassessment of Scientific Theories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Towards a Technology- and Action-Oriented Methodology of Constructive Realism

      • Hans Lenk

      Pages 3-22

   3. The Three Enlightenments

      • Hilary Putnam

      Pages 23-35

3. Artificial Intelligence and the Embodiment of the Mind

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. How Representational Cognitivism Failed and is being replaced by Body/World Coupling

      • Hubert L. Dreyfus

      Pages 39-73

   3. The New Orthodoxy: Humans, Animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus

      • Harry M. Collins

      Pages 75-85

   4. The Key to the Chinese Room

      • Shaun Gallagher

      Pages 87-96

4. Socialization in the Internet Between Dissolution and Extension of the Human Self

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. The Play of Imagination: Extending the Literary Mind

      • Douglas Thomas, John Seely Brown

      Pages 99-120

   3. Reading the World Upside Down: How to Deal with Frozen Knowledge

      • Karl Leidlmair

      Pages 121-131

   4. On the Significance of the ‘Lower’ Senses: Touch, Smell and Taste

      • Barbara Becker

      Pages 133-143

5. New Research Strategies in Psychology and Psychotherapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. We Can Think with the Implicit, As Well As with Fully-Formed Concepts

      • Eugene T. Gendlin

      Pages 147-161

   3. Embodied Knowledge in Design

      • Pierre Sachse, Marco Furtner

      Pages 163-179

   4. The Second Cognitive Revolution

      • Rom Harré

      Pages 181-187

6. Ethical and Economic Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. The Illusion of Free Will and its Acceptance

      • Giuseppe Trautteur

      Pages 191-203

   3. Three Concepts of Liberty

      • Stuart G. Shanker

      Pages 205-212

   4. Premises and Promises of Theory Formation in Economics

      • Franz Hoermann

      Pages 213-225

There is a basic perplexity in our times. On the one hand, we ?nd a blind trust in technology and rationalism. In our neo-liberalistically dominated world only what can be rapidly exploited and commercialized seems to count. The only opposing reaction to this kind of rationalism is an extreme rejection of all kinds of reasoning, and sometimes attendant religious fundamentalism. But instead of re?ecting on the limits and possibilites of reasoning, dialogue is replaced by a demagogic struggle between cultures. One cause of the blind trust in technology is misunderstandings about the sign- cance and the application of theories in the reception of the so-called Enlightenment. The Enlightenment is essentially characterized by two forces: (i) the conception of society as a social contract and (ii) the new science (New- nian physics, etc.). But as a result we lost ground: Atomistic individualism nourished the illusion of a self-contained ego prior to man’s entering into a shared inter-subjective world. And in the new science, our constructions of reality became autonomous and indep- dent of our interventions. Thus we became caught in the inherent dynamism of our computational constructions of reality. Science, as it is applied today, operates with far too simple parameters and model-theoretic constructions – erroneously taking the latter (the models) as literal descriptions of reality.

• Cognitive Revolution
• Cognitivism
• Embodiment
• Heideggerian AI
• cognitive science
• embodied knowledge
• pragmatism

• Institut für Psychologie, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

  Karl Leidlmair

1973-1979 studies in philosophy and psychology

1979 doctorate in philosophy (title of dissertation: Die hermeneutischen Grundlagen Wittgensteins)

1990 Habilitation (habilitation treatise: Künstliche Intelligence und Heidegger)

1990 bis 1994 (co)Director of International Summer Schools In Philosophy And Artificial Intelligence, Bozen/Italy

1993-1996 research assistent at IFF (Institute for interdisciplinary studies in technology at the universities of Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Vienna).

1.October 1997 Associate Professor at the institute of psychology university Innsbruck

1.10.2008 Head of the department of the institute of psychology

Homepage: www.leidlmair.at

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