Phenomenological Reviews

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Cognitive neuroscience of social sensibility

Jay Schulkin

pp. 315-322

Abstract

The perception of beliefs and desires to others is a piece of cognitive and personal adaptation and a bodily event.1 We explore the world, replete with intentional cognition2 through bodily sensibility anchored to an external world of well-established practices.3 As Merleau-Ponty stated, "our body is not in space like things, it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument..."4 Moreover, in the everyday world of sensibility, cognition is not necessarily an alienating event. Theories pervade our interactions thereby facilitating interpersonal exchange.5 But the mind is only one part of the story; the other is the pervasive social structure. Both function in the context of the perception of each other.6

Publication details

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Babich Babette (2002) Hermeneutic philosophy of science, van Gogh's eyes, and God: essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J.. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 315-322

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1767-0_27

Full citation:

Schulkin Jay (2002) „Cognitive neuroscience of social sensibility“, In: B. Babich (ed.), Hermeneutic philosophy of science, van Gogh's eyes, and God, Dordrecht, Springer, 315–322.