On the Proper Treatment of Embodiment

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Work in embodied cognition depicts thought and reason as in some way inextricably tied to the details of our bodily form, sensorimotor skills, and the enabling web of social, cultural, and technological scaffolding in which we live, move, learn and think. But exactly what kind of link between the mind, the body and the local environment is at issue is often left uncomfortably vague. The project aims to disentangle various arguments and appeals to embodiment, to assess the evidence for and against specific claims, and to canvass their potential importance for philosophy, cognitive science, and our self-image as a species.