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Intentionality, pointing, and early symbolic cognition
Concepts such as “symbolism” and “symbolic cognition” often remain unspecified in discussions the symbolic capacities of earlier hominins. In this...
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Knowledge Accumulation in Theatre Rehearsals: The Emergence of a Gesture as a Solution for Embodying a Certain Aesthetic Concept
Theater rehearsals are (usually) confronted with the problem of having to transform a written text into an audio-visual, situated and temporal...
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Prehistory, anti-Cartesianism, and the first-person viewpoint
The concept of mind is widely used in today’s debates on the lives, behavior, and cognition of prehistoric hominins. It is therefore presumably an...
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From Body to Language: Gestural and Pantomimic Scenarios of Language Origin in the Enlightenment
Gestural and pantomimic accounts of language origins propose that language did not develop directly from ape vocalisations, but rather that its...
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Madness vs. Stupidity
One of the main themes of Deleuze’s Logic of Sense is the possibility of the communication of divergent series without reducing them in a connection,...
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Carroll and the Logic of Nonsense
In the course of Logic of Sense, Deleuze insists on the irreducibility of the inherent paradox of sense, which is, its impassibility and neutrality...
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Representation, arbitrariness, and the emergence of speech
This paper discusses three related claims. The first claim is that the expressive limitations of iconic and indexical communication and cognition are...
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Staging the Gesture
Chapter 5, ‘Staging the Gesture’, examines an ingredient of the arts not fully appreciated in its own right. It considers the place of dramatic...
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Dharmakīrtian Inference
Dharmakīrti argues that there is no pramāṇa (valid means of cognition or source of knowledge) for a thesis that is a self-contradiction ( svavacanavirodha...
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Practical concepts and productive reasoning
Can we think of a task in a distinctively practical way? Can there be practical concepts? In recent years, epistemologists, philosophers of mind, as...
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Seeing Through Conventions
Chapter 6, ‘Seeing Through Conventions’, examines how all artistic representation is governed by conventions—material, ideological or thematic—which...
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Challenges to the Diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder: Feigning, Intentionality, and Responsibility
The diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) requires differentiation from other neurologic diseases/syndromes, and from the comparatively...
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Schönheit, Kunst
Nowadays beauty is felt to belong primarily to human art and therefore it is the object of art theory. In antiquity, by contrast, beauty is first...
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On the Emergence of Routines: An Interactional Micro-history of Rehearsing a Scene
In workplace settings, skilled participants cooperate on the basis of shared routines in smooth and often implicit ways. Our study shows how...
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Wovon man nicht sprechen kann … Versuch über das Schweigen
Ein häufig zitierter Gedanke aus Ludwig Wittgensteins frühem philosophischem Werk Tractatus (1921) lautet: „Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber...
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Defining Pantomime for Language Evolution Research
Although pantomimic scenarios recur in the most important historical as well as current accounts of language origins, a serious problem is the lack...
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The Orchestration of Bodies and Artifacts in French Family Dinners
Despite de Saussure’s (1959) visionary writings as to the importance of parole (speech) as well as langue (the language system), the linguistics he...
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The Total Art of Hybrid Cinema
All the preceding specifications of film and film genres pertain to pure cinema, that is, to motion pictures independently of any admixture of other...
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Defining Communication and Language from Within a Pluralistic Evolutionary Worldview
New definitions are proposed for communication and language. Communication is defined as the evolution of physical, biochemical, cellular, community,...
