Bodily Sensibility - Jay Schulkin

Bodily Sensibility

Intelligent Action

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2004
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-514994-4 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
Schulkin presents neuroscientific research demonstrating that thought is not on one side and bodily sensibility on the other; biologically, they are integrated. Schulkin argues that this integration has implications for judgements about art and music, attraction and revulsion, and the perpetual inclination to explain ourselves and our surroundings.
The brain is a cognitive organ, and regions of the brain that traverse brainstem and cortical sites orchestrate the expression of bodily sensibility: intelligent action. They can appear perfunctory or intimate, calculating a sum or selecting a mate. Schulkin presents neuroscientific research demonstrating that thought is not on one side and bodily sensibility on the other; from a biological point of view, they are integrated. Schulkin further argues that this integration has important implications for judgements about the emotions, art and music, moral sensibilities, attraction and revulsion, and our perpetual inclination to explain ourselves and our surroundings. He begins the book by setting forth a view of the emotions not as a bodily burden to be borne, but rather as a great source of information. He then moves on to other domains, claiming that underlying the experience of aesthetics in at least some instances is the interplay between expectation and disappointment from its infraction, and suggesting that, among other things, repulsion and attraction to the cries and joys of others constitutes moral responsiveness. This book should appeal to researchers in behavioural neuroscience, emotion, and psychophysiology, as well as cognitive and social psychologists and philosophers of mind.

Introduction ; 1. Bodily Representations, Behaviour and the Brain ; 2. Demythologizing the Emotions ; 3. Aesthetic Judgement, Discrepancy and Inquiry ; 4. Moral Sensibility and Social Cohesion ; 5. Drives and Explanations ; Conclusion: Corporeal Representations

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.4.2004
Reihe/Serie Series in Affective Science
Zusatzinfo numerous line drawings & black and white photographs
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 236 x 160 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Test in der Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-19-514994-7 / 0195149947
ISBN-13 978-0-19-514994-4 / 9780195149944
Zustand Neuware
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