Article ID: CBB407061354

Merleau-Ponty and the radical sciences of mind (2021)

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In this paper, I critically reconstruct the development of Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology and “radical embodied cognitive science” out of Berlin-School Gestalt theory. I first lay out the basic principles of Gestalt theory and then identify two ways of revising that theory: one route, followed by enactivism and ecological psychology, borrows Gestaltist resources to defend a pragmatic ontology. I argue, however, that Merleau-Ponty never endorses this kind of ontology. Instead, I track his second route toward an ontology of “flesh.” I show how Merleau-Ponty’s arguments for this ontology depend upon criticisms of Gestalt Psychology to which radical embodied cognitive science remains vulnerable, and show that it leads him to a romantic philosophy of nature.

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Authors & Contributors
Tonus, Antonia
Edoardo Datteri
Sheredos, Benjamin
Maria Antonia Rancadore
Gabriel R. Ricci
Grear, Anna
Concepts
Philosophy
Phenomenology
Psychology
Philosophy of science
Cognitive science
Existentialism
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
17th century
Early modern
18th century
Places
Europe
Italy
France
Institutions
School of Milan
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