Embodied Knowing, Embodied Theology: What Happened to the Body?

Narratives and embodied knowing in the NICU.

The author draws on narratives as an illustration of embodied knowledge and argues for the importance of using embodied knowing to inform ethical decisions in the neonatal setting. Nurses have a unique perspective of the complex care associated with neonatal intensive care (NIC). NIC nurses listen to parent's stories and share their own practice stories, leading to an intimate appreciation of a...

kant on the embodied cognition

Phenomenology of embodied implicit and narrative knowing

Purpose – Seeks to argue for a phenomenology of embodied implicit and narrative knowing in organizations and to show the significance of experiential dimensions of implicit and narrative knowing and their mutual interrelations in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – For this the advanced phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty will be used as a framework for clarifying the relational status of t...

What Can Synergetics Contribute to Embodied Aesthetics?

I deal with perception and action (e.g., movements) using results from synergetics, a comprehensive mathematical theory of the self-organized formation (emergence) of spatial, temporal, or functional structures in complex systems. I illustrate basic concepts such as order parameters (OPs), enslavement, complexity reduction, circular causality first by examples of well-known collective, spontane...

What is embodied about cognition?

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole or in part, in a modality-specific format-the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the embodied/disembodied cognition debate is either largely resolved in favor of the view that concepts are represented in an amodal format, or at a point where the embodied and disembodied approaches are no longer ...