OPERATIVE SPEECH AS A SPECIFICATION OF MOTOR INTENTIONALITY IN MERLEAU-PONTY Cover Image

LA PAROLE OPERANTE COMME SPECIFICATION DE L’INTENTIONNALITE MOTRICE CHEZ MERLEAU-PONTY
OPERATIVE SPEECH AS A SPECIFICATION OF MOTOR INTENTIONALITY IN MERLEAU-PONTY

Author(s): Jan Halák
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Education
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; embodied cognition; higher-order cognition; motor intentionality; philosophy of language; mathematical reasoning;

Summary/Abstract: Operative Speech as a Specification of Motor Intentionality in Merleau-Ponty. This paper outlines Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of higher-order cognition as a fundamentally embodied process that is enacted by motor subject situated in natural and cultural environment. More specifically, I exemplify Merleau-Ponty’s interdisciplinary approach to cognition on his interpretations of motor intentionality, operative speech, and mathematical reasoning, which are based on neuropathology, linguistics, and gestalt psychology, respectively. In this analysis, I aim to show that the body is involved in cognition as an operator of the phenomenal structuration of the environment even at the level of linguistic, rational, and abstract experience.

  • Issue Year: 66/2021
  • Issue No: 2 Suppl.
  • Page Range: 107-119
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: French
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