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Introduction: What does it mean to study consciousness in interaction? Fabio Paglieri
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Consciousness research / Interaction Studies

What reason could there be to believe in prereflective bodily self-consciousness? Adrian Alsmith Do sensory substitution devices extend the conscious mind? Julian Kiverstein and Mirko Farina The extended mind and the boundaries of perception and action Nivedita Gangopadhyay Showtime at the Cartesian Theater? Vehicle externalism and dynamical explanations Michael Madary Is the function of consciousness to act as an interface? Bryony Pierce Es are good: Cognition as enacted, embodied, embedded, affective and extended Dave Ward and Mog Stapleton

Section 1. Phenomenal consciousness: Brain, action and interaction

Consciousness in Interaction
The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness
Edited by Fabio Paglieri
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, ISTC-CNR, Rome Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social context. Section one discusses how phenomenal consciousness and subjective selfhood are grounded on natural and social interactions, and what role brain activity plays in these phenomena. Section two analyzes how interactions with external objects and other human beings shape our understanding of ourselves, and how consciousness changes social interaction, self-control and emotions. Section three provides historical depth to the volume, by tracing the roots of the contemporary notion of consciousness in early modern philosophy. The book offers interdisciplinary insight on a variety of key topics in consciousness research: as such, it is of particular interest for researchers from philosophy of mind, phenomenology, cognitive and social sciences, and humanities.
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] 2012. xix, 403 pp. Hb 978 90 272 1352 5 EUR 99.00 Eb 978 90 272 7463 2 EUR 99.00

Mindshaping and the intentional control of the mind Tillmann Vierkant and Andreas Paraskevaides My mind: Reflexive sociality and its cognitive tools Cristiano Castelfranchi Coherence of conduct and the self-image Maria Miceli and Cristiano Castelfranchi Ulysses will: Self-control, external constraints, and games Fabio Paglieri Bodily intentionality and social affordances in context Erik Rietveld Seeing with the hands Corrado Sinigaglia Recognition of emotion in others Nico H. Frijda The Paratactic Account of propositional attitude ascription Finn Spicer

Section 2. Social cognition, self-control, artifacts and emotions: The role of consciousness

From sensation to consciousness: Suggestions in modern philosophy Monica Riccio Theories of consciousness in early-modern philosophy Roberto Palaia Experience and identity of the self: The emergence of consciousness as a cognitive concept in the early modern age Antonio Lamarra Consciousness and imagination in the anthropological view of G. Vico: The modern concept of coscienza in Vicos De antiquissima Manuela Sanna Consciousness and faculties in De antiquissima Italorum sapientia by Vico Geri Cerchiai Authors; References

Section 3. Historical perspectives on consciousness Might consciousness be better understood as an in interaction interactive, situated achievement rather than as
some kind of mystery ingredient added to passive perception? The Consciousness in Interaction research project pursued this fundamental question from multiple perspectives and (fittingly) in a series of highly interactive engagements that structured and informed this wonderful volume of essays. The volume is a fitting tribute to Susan Hurley, to whom it is dedicated, and a landmark publication in the search for a richer understanding of consciousness and the structure of experience. Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh

Many hold that conscious experience is determined entirely locally, by internal processes in the brain. But even if that is true, we would also need to understand the subtle flow of contents, the ineffability, the convoluted, many-layered historicity of that target phenomenon, for this is what yields some of the most intriguing aspects of phenomenal experience: the ever-unfolding dance of coupled self-models, dying into each other while dynamically weaving our individual perspectives into the unfathomable mesh of the intersubjective world. Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz

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