READINGS
John Sutton
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This page covers reading material for my Honours course, semester 2, 2000. It's also a general resource for material on the particular overlap of areas I'm working round, and is intended to be selective rather than exhaustive. Please do email me if you have comments or suggestions.
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Science and Philosophy bibliography/index.
Link to index on the
interdisciplinary study of memory (under construction).
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Links for Week 4:
Hubert L. Dreyfus, 'The
Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology',
from
The
Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 4 (Spring 1996)
Andy Clark & David Chalmers (1998)
The
Extended Mind. Analysis 58 (1),
7-19.
Cultural & Philosophical Approaches to the Embodied Mind
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Philosophy
of the Body, Theories of Gender
Battersby, Christine, The Phenomenal
Woman . See chapter , 'Her Body/ Her Boundaries: gender
and the metaphysics of containment'.
Casey, Ed 'The Ghost of Embodiment: on
bodily habitudes and schemata', in D. Welton (ed), Body and Flesh
(Blackwell).
Grosz, Elizabeth, Volatile Bodies
(Allen
& Unwin, 1994)
Haraway, Donna, Simians, Cyborgs,
and Women (Free Association Books, 1991)
Lakoff, George, and Johnson, Mark, Philosophy
in the Flesh (Chicago UP, 1999).
Stewart, Susan, On Longing (Duke
UP, 1993)
Wilson, Elizabeth, Neural Geographies: feminism and the microstructure
of cognition
(Routledge, 1998). [And
see my review].
Philosophy
of Medicine and the Body
Canguilhem, Georges, The Normal
and the Pathological (Zone Books, 1989)
Canguilhem, Georges, A Vital Rationalist
(Zone Books, 1994).
Duden, Barbara, Disembodying Women:
perspectives on pregnancy and the unborn (Harvard UP, 1993).
Leder, Drew, The Absent Body (Chicago
UP, 1990)
Martin, Emily, The Woman in the
Body
Scarry, Elaine, The Body in Pain:
the making and unmaking of the world (Oxford UP, 1985)
Complexity,
Informatics, Bodies
Cilliers, Paul, Complexity and Postmodernism (Routledge,
1998)
Hayles, N. Katherine, How We Became
Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature,
and Informatics (Chicago UP, 1999).
Johnston, John, 'Machinic Vision', Critical
Inquiry 26 (1999), 27-48
Serres, Michel, Hermes: literature,
science, philosophy (Michigan UP, 1982).
Stengers, Isabelle, Power and Invention
(Minnesota
UP, 1997).
Continental Philosophy
of the Body
Dreyfus, Hubert L., 'The
Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment',
The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 4 (Spring 1996) [also
see proprioception below]
Kristeva, Julia, Powers of Horror
(Columbia
UP, 1982)
Lingis, Alphonso, Foreign Bodies
(Routledge, 1994)
[See also the page on Cognitive
Science and Continental Philosophy]
Cognitive
Anthropology & Cross-Cultural Studies
[see also Kuriyama
below]
Bourdieu, Pierre, 'Structures, Habitus,
Practices',
in Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Lambek, Michael & Strathern, Andrew,
Bodies
and Persons: comparative perspectives from Africa
and Melanesia (Cambridge UP, 1998)
Leroi-Gourhan, Andre, Gesture and
Speech (MIT Press): esp. ch.7 'The Freeing of Memory'.
Lock, Margaret, 'Cultivating the Body:
anthropology and epistemologies of bodily practice and knowledge',
Annual
Review of Anthropology 22 (1993), 133-155
Low, Morris, 'Medical Representations
of the Body in Japan: gender, class, and discourse in the 18th century',
Annals
of Science 53 (1996), 345-359
Strathern, Andrew , Body Thoughts
(Michigan
UP, 1996). Excellent survey of philosophy, history, anthropology.
Strauss, Claudia, and Quinn, Naomi, A
Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning (Cambridge UP,
1997), especially chapters 1 & 3.
Zysk, Kenneth, 'Vital Breath (prana)
in
ancient Indian medicine and religion', in Yosio Kawakita et al (eds),
The Comparison between Concepts of Life-Breath in East and West (Ishiyaku
EuroAmerica, 1995)
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History
of Sexuality
Foucault, Michel, The History of
Sexuality volume 1 (Vintage, 1978)
Jacquart, Danielle, and Thomasset, Claude,
Sexuality
and Medicine in the Middle Ages (Polity Press, 1988)
Jordanova, Ludmilla, Sexual Visions:
images of gender in science and medicine (Harvester Press, 1989)
Laqueur, Thomas, Making Sex (Columbia
UP, 1991)
Schiebinger, Londa, The Mind Has
No Sex? (Harvard UP, 1990)
Ancient
Bodies
Brown, Peter, The Body and Society
Foucault, Michel, The Use of Pleasure
and
The
Care of the Self (Vintage, 1984)
Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness
in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (2nd
edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1990). [With Dan Dennett, 'Julian Jaynes' Software
Archaeology']
Kuriyama, Shigehisa,
'Pneuma, Qi, and the Problematic of Breath', in Yosio Kawakita et
al (eds),
The Comparison between Concepts of Life-Breath in East and West (Ishiyaku
EuroAmerica, 1995)
Kuriyama, Shigehisa, The Expressiveness
of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and
Chinese Medicine (Zone Books,
1999).
Padel, Ruth, In and Out of the Mind
(Princeton
UP, 1992): ch.1 'The Divinity of Inside and Outside', ch.2 'Innards'.
'Pre-Modern'
Bodies?
Bakhtin, Mikhail, Rabelais and his
World (Indiana UP, 1984).
Duden, Barbara, The Woman Beneath
the Skin (Harvard UP, 1991), ch.4 'The Perception of the Body'
[an
18th-century case study of embodied experience apparently quite alien to
the modern]
Harris, Jonathan Gil, Foreign Bodies
and the Body Politic: discourses of social pathology in early modern
England (Cambridge UP, 1998). See esp. ch.2 '"Enter at the least
pore": medicine & bodily infiltration'.
Hillman, D & Mazzio, C (eds), The
Body in Parts: fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe (Routledge,
1997). See especially the introduction, and Paster, 'Nervous Tension: networks
of blood and spirit'.
Muir, Edwin, Ritual in Early Modern
Europe (Cambridge UP, 1997), ch.3 'Carnival & the Lower Body'
Paster, Gail Kern, The Body Embarrassed:
drama and the disciplines of shame (Cornell UP, 1993). As well
as
the brilliant introduction [course reader], see especially ch.1 'Leaky
Vessels' on liquid expressiveness of bodies.
Pouchelle, Marie-Christine, The
Body and Surgery in the Middle Ages (Rutgers UP, 1990). Brilliant,
psychoanalytically-informed reading of strange medieval texts and fantasies.
Sawday, Jonathan, The Body Emblazoned:
dissection and the human body in Renaissance
culture (Routledge, 1996). [See also my review, 'Uncanny
Innards']
Scarry, Elaine, 'Donne: but yet the body
is his booke', in Scarry (ed.), Literature and the Body (Baltimore,
1988)
Siraisi, Nancy, Medieval and Early
Renaissance Medicine (Chicago UP, 1990). Clear introductory account:
see especially chapter 4 'Physiological and Anatomical Knowledge'.
Mechanical
Bodies & 17th-century Body History
[See also readings on Descartes
and the human body]
Barker, Francis, The Tremulous Private
Body: essays on subjection (Methuen, 1984).
Dear, Peter, 'A Mechanical Microcosm:
bodily passions, good manners, and Cartesian mechanism',
in C. Lawrence and S. Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: historical
embodiments of natural
knowledge (Chicago UP, 1998), 51-82
Easlea, Brian, Witch-Hunting, Magic,
and the New Philosophy (Harvester Press, 1980)
Mayr, Otto, Authority, Liberty,
and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe (Johns Hopkins UP,
1986). Pits
Cartesian authoritarianism in physiology, technology, and politics against
an alleged growing commitment to liberty
in English natural philosophy and social thought. See especially pp.62-7,
117-122.
Merchant, Carolyn, Women, Ecology,
and the Scientific Revolution (New York, 1980)
Reiss, Tim, 'Denying the Body? Memory
and the dilemmas of history in Descartes', Journal of the History of
Ideas 57 (1996), 587-607. Wonderful, wise paper on the Cartesian legacy
and cross-cultural body matters.
Rupp, Jan C.C. 'Foucault, Body Politics,
and the Rise of Modern Anatomy', Journal of Historical Sociology 5 (1992),
31-60
Enlightenment
Bodies
Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 'Running out of
matter: the body exercised in 18th-century fiction', in Rousseau &
Porter
(eds.),
The Languages of Psyche (California UP, 1990).
Foucault, Michel, Madness and Civilisation
(Random
House, 1965)
Huet, Marie-Helene, Monstrous Imagination
(Harvard
UP, 1993)
Rousseau, G.S. & Porter, Roy (eds.),
The
Languages of Psyche (California UP, 1990).
Stafford, Barbara Maria, Body Criticism:
imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine
(MIT
Press, 1991). Especially ch.1 'Dissecting', ch.6 'Sensing'.
Stallybrass, Peter, & White, Allon,
The
Politics and Poetics of Transgression (Methuen, 1986).
Proprioception and
Body-Image
Eilan, Naomi, Marcel, Anthony, and Bermudez, Jose, 'Self-Consciousness
and the Body: an interdisciplinary
introduction', in Bermudez,
Marcel, & Eilan (eds), The Body and the Self (MIT Press,
1995), 1-28.
Gallagher, Shaun, and Meltzoff, Andrew,
'The earliest sense of self and others: Merleau-Ponty and
recent developmental studies',
Philosophical
Psychology 9 (1996), 211-233
Monica Meijsing, 'Self-Consciousness and the Body', Journal of Consciousness
Studies 7 (2000), 34-52
Dynamical
Cognitive Science
For a broader list see separate index
on Dynamicism
and Distributed Cognition.
Here is a brief list of central works:
Clark, Andy, & Chalmers, David,
The
Extended Mind. Analysis 58 (1)
7-19.
Clark, Andy, Being There: putting
body, brain, and world together again (MIT Press, 1997).
Clark, Andy, ‘Embodiment and the Philosophy of Mind’, in A. O’Hear
(ed.),
Current Issues in
Philosophy of Mind
(Cambridge U.P., 1998), 35-51
Dennett, Daniel C., Kinds of Minds (Basic Books, 1996),
chapter 5 section 2 ‘Making
Things to Think With’
Eliasmith, Chris, 'The
third contender: a critical examination of the dynamicist theory of cognition',
Philosophical Psychology
9, 441-463. From the abstract:
In this paper
I begin with a short description of the dynamicist project and its role
as a cognitive theory.
Subsequently,
I determine the theoretical commitments of dynamicists, critically examine
those commitments
and discuss
current examples of dynamicist models. In conclusion, I determine dynamicism's
relation to
symbolicism
and connectionism and find that the dynamicist goal to establish a new
paradigm has yet to be realized.
Hutchins, Edwin, Cognition in the Wild (MIT Press, 1995),
chapter 9 ‘Cultural Cognition’
Rogers, Yvonne, A
Brief Introduction to Distributed Cognition
[Summary: Distributed Cognition is a hybrid approach to studying all aspects
of cognition, from a cognitive, social and organisational
perspective. The most well known level of analysis is to account for complex
socially distributed cognitive activities, of which a
diversity of technological artefacts and other tools and representations
are an indispensable part.]
Schechtman, Marya, 'The Brain/Body Problem',
Philosophical
Psychology 10 (1997), 149-164
van Gelder, Tim, 'Dynamic
Approaches to Cognition' [Adobe Acrobat Reader required],
or in
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MIT Press, 1999),
pp.243-5.
Varela, Franciso, Thompson, Evan, &
Rosch, Eleanor, The Embodied Mind: cognitive
science and human
experience(MIT Press, 1992).
John Sutton
Dept of Philosophy
Macquarie University.
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