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A Short Defense of Heidegger | Minds and Brains
"Let me start by saying that I primarily deal with philosophy of mind. Let me also say that there is a quiet storm brewing in philosophy of mind circles, with essentially two competing philosophical paradigms standing at odds:
one inspired by Descartes/Locke/Kant
and the other by Heidegger/Merleau-Ponty/Gibson.
The former trio is foundational in respect to the cognitivism still very much in vogue today; the latter with respect to the less established but quickly growing 4E paradigm (embodied, embedded, extended, enacted). The 4E paradigm is a direct reaction to the perceived failures of classic cognitivism in respect to understanding perception, action, intentionality, emotion, reasoning, etc.
Accordingly, there are many overlapping ways to cash out the distinction between the two paradigms:
A Short Defense of Heidegger | Minds and Brains
"Let me start by saying that I primarily deal with philosophy of mind. Let me also say that there is a quiet storm brewing in philosophy of mind circles, with essentially two competing philosophical paradigms standing at odds:
one inspired by Descartes/Locke/Kant
and the other by Heidegger/Merleau-Ponty/Gibson.
The former trio is foundational in respect to the cognitivism still very much in vogue today; the latter with respect to the less established but quickly growing 4E paradigm (embodied, embedded, extended, enacted). The 4E paradigm is a direct reaction to the perceived failures of classic cognitivism in respect to understanding perception, action, intentionality, emotion, reasoning, etc.
Accordingly, there are many overlapping ways to cash out the distinction between the two paradigms:
- Cartesian vs. Heideggerian philosophy of mind
- indirect representationalism vs. direct nonrepresentationalism
- strict primary/secondary qualities distinction vs. skepticism of distinction
- atomism vs. holism
- computationalist vs. Gibsonian theories of information processing
- disembodied vs. embodied theories of mind
- social atomism vs. social embeddedness/contextualism
- emphasis on the theoretical vs. emphasis on the instrumental
- theory-theory vs. the Narrative Practice Hypothesis
- reductionist vs. social constructivist approaches to higher-order cognition
- computer metaphor vs. “bundle of habits” metaphor
- literal view of language vs. figurative-metaphorical view of language
- analytic vs. hermeneutic approach to interpretation and understanding
- internalist vs. externalist approaches to perception
- dualist ontology vs. affordance ontology"
- robust vs. minimalist conceptions of selfhood
- subject-as-against-objects vs. subject-as-“amidst”-objects
- Those who believe in the Myth of the Given vs. those who don’t
- good guys vs. bad guys
- etc.