Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (1994) Corporeal Representation and Corporeal Sense-making
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Psycoloquy 5(53): Corporeal Representation and Corporeal Sense-making
CORPOREAL REPRESENTATION AND CORPOREAL SENSE-MAKING
Reply to Webster on Evolution-Thinking
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Department of Philosophy
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
MSJ@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Abstract
This Reply takes issue with two points in Webster's
(1994) extrapolation of corporeal representation to the realm of
concept formation in highly disadvantaged infants: his argument
from the pathological to the normal and his claim that cognition is
socially constructed. A normal infant's everyday
tactile-kinesthetic experience is both cognitively rich in and of
itself and other-independent, that is, a personal affair.
Keywords
analogical thinking, animate form, concepts, evolution,
tactile-kinesthetic body.
References
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- Brown, Jason W. (1991) Self and Process: Brain States and the Conscious Present. New York: Springer-Verlag.
- Nauta, Walle and Michael Feirtag. (1979) The Organization of the Brain. Scientific American 241.
- Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine. (1990) The Roots of Thinking. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine. (1994) Precis of The Roots of Thinking. PSYCOLOQUY 5(8) evolution-thinking.1.sheets-johnstone.
- Stern, Daniel N. (1985) The Interpersonal World of the Infant. New York: Basic Books.
- Stern, Daniel N. (1990) Diary of a Baby. New York: Basic Books.
- Webster, David S. (1994) Sensory Modalities and Concept Formation. PSYCOLOQUY 5(31) evolution-thinking.4.webster.