Dewey: the first ghost-buster?
2006; Elsevier BV; Volume: 10; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.tics.2006.04.004
ISSN1879-307X
Autores Tópico(s)Chaos, Complexity, and Education
ResumoGhost-busting, or less colloquially, anti-Cartesianism or non-representationalism, is a loose and internally fluid coalition (philosophical and empirical) comprising Dynamical, Embodied, Extended, Distributed, and Situated (DEEDS) theories of cognition. Gilbert Ryle – DEEDS' anglophonic masthead [ 1 Ryle G. The Concept of Mind. Penguin, 1949/1990 Google Scholar ] – supposedly exorcised the Cartesian propensity to postulate mind as an apparition-like entity somehow situated in the body. Ryle's behaviouristic recommendation was, that just as we don't see the wind blowing but only see the trees waving, so too should we conceive intelligence as manifest though action. The Cartesian ghost of old has mutated, taking the form of the ‘Machine in the Machine’, the brain as a self-contained system within the body. This bifurcation of the person into brain and body, apparent in the methodological supposition that cognition can be studied independently of any consideration of the body and the physical and ambient social environment is, in effect, a naturalized and perhaps more insidious variant.
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