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Volume1: Embodiment
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Cognitive Linguistics Research
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Editors
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Rene´ Dirven
John R.Taylor
Honorary editor
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Body, Language and Mind
Volume 1: Embodiment
Edited by
Tom Ziemke
Jordan Zlatev
Roslyn M. Frank
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Listofcontributors VII
Introduction: Thebodyeclectic
Tom ZiemkeandRoslynM. Frank 1
SectionA: Historicalroots
We are live creatures: Embodiment, AmericanPragmatism
andthe cognitive organism
MarkJohnson andTim Rohrer 17
Bringingthebodybackto life: James Gibson's
ecologyofembodiedagency
Alan Costall 55
Fromthemeaningofembodimentto the embodiment
ofmeaning: A studyinphenomenological semiotics
Goran Sonesson 85
Embodimentand social interaction: A cognitive
scienceperspective
Jessica Lindblom andTom Ziemke 129
SectionB: Bodyand mind
Representingactions andfunctional properties
inconceptual spaces
Peter Giirdenfors 167
Frompre-representational cognitionto language
TakashiIkegami andJordan Zlatev 197
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Making sense ofembodiedcognition: Simulationtheories
ofsharedneural mechanisms for sensorimotor
andcognitiveprocesses
HenrikSvensson, Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke 241
Phenomenological andexperimental contributions
to understandingembodiedexperience
Shaun Gallagher 271
Section C: Body,language and culture
Embodiment, language, andmimesis
Jordan Zlatev 297
Thebodyinspace: Dimensionsofembodiment
TimRohrer 339
Onthebiosemiotics ofembodimentand
ourhumancyborgnature
ClausEmmeche 379
Embodimentand self-organizationofhumancategories:
A case studyofspeech
LucSteels andBartdeBoer 411
Communicationas situated, embodiedpractice
Wolff-MichaelRoth 431
Index 457
List ofcontributors
Bart de Boer did a Master's degree in computer science at the Rijksuni
versiteit Leiden (1994) and a PhD in artificial intelligence at the AI lab of
the Vrije Universiteit Brusse1 (1999) under professor Luc Steels. He has
worked as apostdoc inBrussels and atthe University ofWashington under
professor Patricia Kuhl. He has also performed linguistic fieldwork in Ne
pal. His main research interest is in computer mode1ing the evolution of
speech. He is currently working as an assistant professor in cognitive ro
botics atthe RijksuniversiteitLeiden.
e-mail: [email protected]
Alan Costall is Professor ofTheoretical Psychology at the University of
Portsmouth, England. His research interests are wide, but are held together
by a commitment to interdiscip1inarity, and a broadly ecological or mutu
alistperspective. He has been increasingly involved in work on the history
of modem psychology and its relations (or lack of them) to other disci
plines. Recentpublications include: A. Costa11 and o. Dreier, (eds.), Doing
Things with Things. (London: Ashgate, 2006); A. Costa11, I. Leudar, andV.
Reddy. (2006) "Failingto see the irony in 'mind-reading.'" Theory & Psy
chology 16(2): 163-167; Bard, K.A., M. Myowa-Yamakoshi, M. To
monaga, M. Tanaka, A. Costa11, A., and T. Matsuzawa. (2005) "Group
differences in the mutual gaze ofchimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)." Devel
opmental Psychology 41: 616-624; Rogers, S. D., E. E. Kadar and A.
Costa11, A. (2005) "Gaze patterns in the visual control of straight road
driving and braking as a function ofspeed and expertise." EcologicalPsy
chology 17: 19-38; Costa11, A., and I. Leudar. (2004). "Where is the 'the
ory' in theory ofmind?" Theory andPsychology 14: 625-648; Costa11, A.,
M. Sinico and G. Parovel. (2003) "The concept of 'invariants' and the
problem of perceptual constancy." Rivista di Estetica, n.s. 24(3), 49-53;
Ost, J., and A. Costa1l. (2002) "MisrememberingBart1ett: A study in serial
reproduction."BritishJournal ofPsychology 93: 243-255.
e-mail: [email protected]
Claus Emmeche is a theoretical biologist, Ph.D., Associate Professor and
Head ofthe Center for the Philosophy ofNature and Science Studies, 10-
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catedatthe Niels BohrInstitute, University ofCopenhagen. The Faculty of
Science founded the center in 1994 to explore a new and more science
related way to do philosophy ofnature, yet keeping a notion ofscience as
more than natural science. Emmeche has taught courses in philosophy of
biology and philosophy of science and his current research interests in
clude biosemiotics, artificial life, ontology, organism/body/cyborg rela
tions, and philosophy ofnature. He is active in the Copenhagen biosemi
otics school (cf. ReadingHoffmeyer: RethinkingBiology, with Kalevi Kull
and Frederik Stjemfelt) and in developing a cluster ofmandatory science
studies courses for thebachelorprogrammes inDenmark.
e-mail: [email protected]
Roslyn M. Frank is Professor Emeritus in the Department ofSpanish and
Portuguese at the University ofIowa. She is co-editor ofCognitive Models
in Language and Thought: Ideology, Metaphors and Meaning (2003);
Language andIdeology, Vol. 2. Cognitive Description Approaches (2001)
andhas publishedextensivelyinthe field ofcognitive linguistics as well as
in ethnoscience, most particularly in ethnomathematics and ethnoastro
nomy. Herresearchonthe Basque language has takenherto Euskal Herria,
the Basque Country, where she has done extensive fieldwork and given
numerous seminars. In addition she has given presentations on these re
searchtopics throughoutEurope.
e-mail: [email protected]
Shaun Gallagher is Professor and Chair ofPhilosophy and Cognitive Sci
ences at the University ofCentral Florida; he has been occasional Visiting
Professor at the University ofCopenhagen (2004-2006) and Visiting Sci
entistatthe MedicalResearchCouncil's CognitionandBrain SciencesUnit
at Cambridge University (1994). He is co-editor of the interdisciplinary
journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. His research interests
include phenomenology and philosophy ofmind, cognitive sciences, her
meneutics, theories ofthe selfand personal identity. His most recentbook,
How the Body Shapes the Mind, is published by Oxford University Press
(2005). He is co-editor ofthe forthcoming Does Consciousness Cause Be
havior?AnInvestigation oftheNature ofVolition (MITPress, 2006). He is
currently working on several projects, including a co-authored book, The
PhenomenologicalMind: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy ofMind and
the Cognitive Sciences (Routledge, 2007). His previous books include:
Hermeneutics andEducation (1992) and The Inordinance ofTime (1998).
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He has edited or co-edited volumes including: Ipseity and Alterity: Inter
disciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity (2004),· Models of the Self
(1999); Hegel, History, and Interpretation (1997). Home page: http://
pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/"-Jgallaghr
e-mail: [email protected]
Peter Gardenfors is professor of cognitive science at Lund University
(Sweden). He leads the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science there (LUCS).
He has published numerous books and articles on decision theory, episte
mology, beliefrevision, concept formation and the evolution ofcognition
(see http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Peter.Gardenfors/bibli02000.html). The
most important books are Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of
Epistemic States (Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1988); Conceptual Spaces
(Bradford Books, MIT Press, 2000); How Homo Became Sapiens: On the
Evolution ofThinking (Oxford University Press, 2003); and The Dynamics
ofThought (Springer, 2005).
e-mail: [email protected]
Takashi Ikegami earned his Ph.D in Physics (1989). He works on Artifi
cial Life and Complex Systems by simulating computational models. His
publications range from self-reproduction, ecological systems, embodied
cognition to cognitive linguistics. Some ofhis recent articles are: Ikegami,
T. (2005). "Neutral phenotypes as network keystone species." Population
Ecology 47: 21-29; Iizuka, H. and T. Ikegami. (2004) "Adaptability and
diversity in simulated turn-taking behavior." Artificial Life 10: 361-378;
Ikegami, T., and G. Morimoto. (2003) "Chaotic itinerancy in coupled dy
namical recognizers." CHAOS 13: 1133-1147; Ikegami, T. (1999). "Evolv
ability ofmachines and tapes." J. ArtificialLife and Robotics 3( 4): 242
245; Ikegami, T. and M. Taiji. (1998). "Structures ofpossible worlds in a
game of players with internal models." Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica
91: 283-292.
e-mail: [email protected]
MarkJohnson is Professor ofPhilosophy and Knight Professor ofLiberal
Arts and Sciences at the University ofOregon. His research has focused on
the philosophical implications ofthe role ofhuman embodiment in mean
ing, conceptualization, andreasoning. He is co-author, withGeorge Lakoff,
ofMetaphors We Live By (1980) and Philosophy in the Flesh (1999) and
author ofThe Body in the Mind (1987) and Moral Imagination (1993). He
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is currently completing a book on the aesthetic dimensions of meaning,
drawing on evidence from cognitive science, phenomenology, neurosci
ence, and the arts that reveals the origins ofmeaning in felt qualities, sen
sorimotorpatterns, andemotions.
e-mail: [email protected]
Jessica Lindblom is a cognitive science Ph.D. candidate working at the
School ofHumanities and Informatics, University ofSkovde, Sweden. She
previously received a master's degree in computer science (2001) and
bachelor's degree in cognitive science (2000). Her main research interests
are social aspects of embodied and situated cognition, and their implica
tions to interactive technology. Some ofherpublications, together with her
supervisor professor Tom Ziemke, are Lindblom and Ziemke (2003) "So
cial situatedness of natural and artificial intelligence. Vygotsky and be
yond." Adaptive Behavior 11(2): 79-96, and Lindblom and Ziemke (2005)
"Body-in-motion: broadening the social mind." In: Bruno G. Bara, Law
rence Barsalou and Monica Bucciarelli (eds), Proceedings ofthe XXVII
AnnualConference ofthe Cognitive Science Society, 1284-1289. Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
e-mail:[email protected]
Tim Rohrer has published extensively on metaphor and embodiment in
diverse disciplines for over fifteen years. His work has ranged from ex
perimental cognitive neuroscience to information technology policy and
from the politics of conflict resolution to the philosophy of language. In
addition to the lines of investigation reflected in this volume, he is also
researching how metaphors shape attitudes toward wildfire mitigation in
the western United States. He is perhaps best known as the founder and
maintainer ofthe Center for the Cognitive Science ofMetaphor Online, a
collection offormative articles in metaphor theory and cognitive semantics
(http://zakros.ucsd.edu;'--.Jtrohrer/metaphor/metaphor.htm). He holds a PhD
in philosophy from the University of Oregon and has been a Thomas J.
Watson scholar, aFulbrightresearcher at the Center for Semiotic Research
in Aarhus, Denmark, and a NllI fellow at the Institute for Neural Compu
tationattheUniversityofCaliforniaat SanDiego. Atpresenthe directs the
Colorado AdvancedResearchInstitute inBoulder, Colorado.
e-mail: [email protected]
