Embodiment

A group of faculty have strong interests in the role of embodiment in such processes as the constitution of identity, formation of concepts, the structures of reason, knowledge practices, intersubjectivity, and the emergence of values. We see this interest as emerging out of our departmental commitment to investigating the situated character of knowing and our conception of the centrality of organism/ environment interactions in the constitution of all beings and all social practices.

We approach this research and teaching interest from a broad range of orientations including cognitive and developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, feminist philosophy, Foucaldian theory, linguistics, phenomenology, and race theory.

Course Offerings:

Feminist Theories of the Body
Male Embodiment
Phenomenology
Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Philosophy and Embodiment
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy of Language
Race Theory

Faculty:

Mark Johnson
John Lysaker
Bonnie Mann
Beata Stawarska
Ted Toadvine
Naomi Zack

Links of Interest:

Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences