Embodied Mind and Neural Underpinnings of the Aesthetic Experience. A Case Study from the German Eighteenth Century: 4E Cognition Theories Forecasted by Johann Gottfried Herder
May 7, 2021 DOI: 10.34257/gjmravol21is2pg13 via Semantic Scholar
Summary
Johann Gottfried Herder's late-18th-century writings on thought, language, and the body anticipated core ideas of modern 4E Cognition. His work linked perception, knowledge, and embodiment in ways that foreshadow contemporary bio-cultural and embodied cognition theories. The paper highlights how Herder's philosophical and theological insights opened new perspectives on the relationship between mind and body, predating recent developments in cognitive science.
Study at a glance
| Design | theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key finding | Herder's 18th-century discourse on knowledge, perception, and cognition anticipated key issues in contemporary 4E Cognition theories. |
Abstract
Recent theories within the avenue of the bio-cultural turn, and particularly about embodied cognition are forecasted in the anthropological, philosophical, physiological and scientific debate of the late 18th century in Germany. Philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder contributed to this discourse sigificantly, opening up new perspectives on the link among thought and language and body. In this paper we aim at highlighting some core issues of Herders’s discourse about knowledge, perception and cognition, that seem to anticipate some of the most recent 4E Cognition issues.