Skillful coping in everyday life and in sport: A critical examination of the views of Heidegger and Dreyfus
Skillful coping in everyday life and in sport: A critical examination of the views of Heidegger and Dreyfus
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10.1080/00948705.2007.9714716
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2007-01-01
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0.7
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Breivik, Gunnar
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作者:
Breivik, Gunnar
Recent discussion in both philosophy of mind and phenomenology has focused on skilled motor behavior. The discussion has already produced a large body of literature (1; 4; 7; 16; 22; 24; 26). In philosophy of sport various authors have discussed skilled movements but mostly in relation to epistemological concerns about knowing in sport (15; 17; 18; 27; 29; 32). The aforementioned recent discussion, however, has mainly been neglected among philosophers of sport, with the exception of Moe (20; 21). Philosophers in the phenomenological tradition and in the analytic tradition use findings from empirical studies as a basis for their arguments (see for instance 7; 16; 22). This link to empirical work is important. In sport sciences there is a considerable amount of interesting empirical work on motor learning and control (see for example 30). It is time for philosophers of sport to also begin a more serious discussion of skilled motor behavior. This is particularly appropriate because the general discussion of motor behavior in philosophy of mind and in phenomenology relies heavily on examples from sport. The discussion between Searle (26) and Dreyfus (4) is a case in point. Both in general philosophy of mind and in empirical work on motor learning and control, the information processing paradigm is broadly accepted. According to this paradigm, skillful behavior is based on discrete mental representations that are processed according to certain rules. This is done in a conscious manner at lower skill levels and then in increasingly unconscious ways at higher skill levels (25). Likewise, the phenomenological skill acquisition paradigm advocated by Dreyfus (5; 6) contends that at higher levels of skilled behavior we use “absorbed coping” in our dealings with the world. Absorbed coping is not based on discrete representations and rule-following but on the direct interaction of our bodies with the physical environment. This interaction has a nonconscious zombie-like character. Dreyfus maintains, In absorbed coping the agent’s body is led to move so as to reduce a sense of deviation from a satisfactory gestalt without the agent knowing what a satisfactory gestalt will be like in advance of achieving it. Thus in absorbed coping, rather than a sense of trying to achieve success, one has a sense of being drawn towards an equilibrium.(4: p. 3)