Content and Comportment: On Embodiment and the Epistemic Availability of the World - Softcover

O'Donovan-Anderson, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847686256 ISBN 13: 9780847686254

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

In this ambitious and compelling book, Michael O'Donovan-Anderson argues that the answer to some long-standing questions in epistemology and metaphysics lies in taking up the neglected question of the role of our bodily activity in establishing connections between representational states―knowledge and belief in particular―and their objects in the world. O'Donovan-Anderson uses ideas from both analytic philosophers (Frege, Dummett, Davidson, and Evans) and continental philosophers (Heidegger and his commentators and critics) to bring together these two approaches in a unique and effective way. Content and Comportment is an important contribution to the literature on embodiment, and will be of great interest to epistemologists and philosophers in both the continental and analytic traditions.

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About the Author

Michael O'Donovan-Anderson is a tutor at St. John's College and the editor of The Incorporated Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment (Rowman & Littlefield).

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847686256
• ISBN 13: 9780847686254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192