Knowing without thinking : mind, action, cognition, and the phenomenon of the background

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Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Z.Radman The Mystery of the Background qua Background H.L.Dreyfus PART I: ECHOING SEARLE'S AND DREYFUS' VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Ground-Level Intelligence:Action-Oriented Representation and the Dynamics of the Background M.Cappuccio & M.Wheeler Exposing the Background: Deep and Local D.D.Hutto The Background as Intentional, Conscious, and Nonconceptual M.Schmitz Social Cognition, the Chinese Room, and the Robot Replies S.Gallagher Contesting John's Searle' Social Ontology: Institutions and Background J.Margolis Music and the Background D.Schmicking PART II: EXTENDED VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Implicit Precision E.T.Gendlin Enkinaesthesia: The Essential Sensuous Background for Co-Agency S.A.J.Stuart Steps Entailed in Foregrounding the Background: Taking the Challenge of Languaging Experience Seriously M.Sheets-Johnstone The Body as Background: Pragmatism and Somasthetics R.Shusterman The Background: A Tool of Potentiality Z.Radman Embodied Technology as Implicit Knowledge of Modern Civilization K.Mainzer Index