It is argued that Swinburne should stress the functional unity of soul and body under most healthy conditions. Too often, critics substance dualism charge dualists with promoting a problematic bifurcation between body. Swinburne’s work defended against objections from Thomas Nagel. appeal to first-person point view sound.

With its historical roots in the phenomenological perspective of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, embodied cognition has been able to address classically problematic issues in cognitive science. In this paper I examine the model of visual consciousness put forth by Alva Noë and J. Kevin O’Regan, and the model of learning and skill acquisition put forth by Hubert Dr...

We are not distinguishing the terms “embodied agent” and “cognitive robot.” The panelists were chosen from among the expected attendees of Commonsense 2001 as researchers who have had experience implementing embodied agents, or as representatives of research groups that have implemented embodied agents. The research groups represented by the panelists (whether they, themselves, are implementors...

In one of the most frequently quoted passages in the history of emotion research, William James (1884: 189f) announces that emotions occur when the perception of an exciting fact causes a collection of bodily changes, and “our feeling of the same changes as they occur IS the emotion.” The same idea occurred to Carl Lange (1984) around the same time. These authors were not the first to draw a li...

Situated, embodied cognitive science is all the rage these days. Some (including the present author) have argued that situated, embodied cognitive science is incompatible with realism (metaphysical and scientific). In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake: there is no reason one cannot be both a proponent of situated, embodied cognitive science and a realist. To show this, I point to flaws...

There is now growing interest in the development of computer systems which respond to users‟ emotion and affect. We report three small scale studies (with a total of 42 participants) which investigate the extent to which affective agents, using strategies derived from human-human interaction, can reduce user frustration within humancomputer interaction. The results confirm the previous findings...