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(2017) Rethinking knowledge, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter discusses the relation of knowledge to mind. It distinguishes between two views of knowledge, the view of disembodied knowledge and the view of embodied knowledge. According to the view of disembodied knowledge, the mind is separate and independent of the body, and knowledge belongs to the mind alone, it is entirely based on ideas or representations of the mind, and its object are ideas or representations of the mind. Conversely, according to the view of embodied knowledge, the mind consists of certain capacities of the body, and knowledge is a natural process based on these capacities, which are implemented through processes external to the mind. The chapter maintains that the view of disembodied knowledge is untenable and only the view of embodied knowledge is defensible.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53237-0_17
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Cellucci, C. (2017). Knowledge and mind, in Rethinking knowledge, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 221-232.
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