...This chapter examines the role of volition in determining liability in criminal attempts. It discusses different types of volitions and provides a functionalist account alongside H.A. Prichard's account of volition. These both consider bodily movements as non-basic actions. It argues that neither...

... night imagination life perceptual activity bodily movement affectivity sensation Husserl Straus space While the distinctive feature of worldly entities is extension, “the Soul,” Descartes stated, “is of such a nature that it has no relation to extension” (1649: I30). The resulting...

...-related movements of performers, such as facial expressions and gestures. Such expressive bodily movements help to shape listeners’ perception of music structure and link perception to action. Furthermore, it describes the function of spatial representations of music, and discusses evidence that musical...

...This chapter presents a plausible strategy, grounded on the proposal that the bodily movement corresponding to an action must be sensitive to the content of the mental state that causes it, for defending the theory against the possibility of deviant causal chains. This is referred to here...

... brain neurocircuitry consciousness James William neurocircuitry “core consciousness” Damasio “extended consciousness ” “autobiographical self” Damasio “core self” Damasio “proto self” Damasio play nature human body brain physiology bodily movement consciousness affect animal play...

...In Chapter VIII Bentham discusses intentions. The main distinctions about them he makes are explained. First, there is the distinction between an intentional act, or bodily movement, and the intentional consequences of an act. Bentham discusses a case that involves a “deviant causal chain,” perhaps...

...This chapter links phenomenology with cognitive science. It deals with the “intrinsic temporality” in both bodily movement and action, some of which is experienced, but some of which happens at the subpersonal levels of analysis. The chapter begins with Husserl's dynamic model of retention...

.... Topics covered include the motor control aspects of playing and the bodily movements used for expressive musical effects as well as cooperative performance. Individual differences in bodily postures and gestures as well as the identification of types of bodily movement used for interpersonal...

... perception Lear Gabriel Richardson Freudenthal Gad awareness consciousness De Generatione Animalium De Partibus Animalium Rapp Christof Menn Stephen Descartes René Aristotle desire passions body and soul bodily movement De Motu Animalium De Anima In De Anima 3.10, 433b13ff...

... Vulnerability Technology Sensory awareness Graham Martha Knowledge Nietzsche Friedrich dance matter evolution reproduction genetic mutations bodily movement art dancing The dance of the future will be a new movement, a consequence of the entire evolution which mankind has passed through...

... that herself Anscombe raises for her thesis, and considers her reasons for thinking that the scope of an agent’s non-observational self-knowledge is not limited to her interior states or immediate bodily movements. Finally, it considers how the difficulties that Anscombe has raised are supposed to be addressed...

...This chapter begins by identifying putative action that an agent performed by tracing its effects back to some bodily movement. This bodily movement has to be one that can be considered a basic action, i.e. one that the agent knows how to perform, and it further has to be the case that his...

... of the limits of operatic drama grounded in words to one that admits dance, gesture, and the body. Wagner's prose writings can serve as an invitation to consider the question of whether grand opera might thematize bodily movement, and how it does so. Auber Daniel François Esprit Gustave III ou le bal masqué La...

... of—not to mention practice—dance as a vital art. In fact, dancing often appears as the opposite of what counts as knowledge. This chapter considers the idea of reading and writing as practices of bodily becoming and explains how dancing exercises the very sensory awareness of ourselves as bodily movement...

...This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the first part, the book investigates why scholars in religious studies have tended to overlook dance, or rhythmic bodily movement, in favor of textual expressions of religious life...

...The Shape of Motion. Jordan Schonig, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190093884.003.0003 This chapter examines “habitual gestures”—everyday bodily movements, such as walking or sitting, that are ingrained as muscle memory—as a form...

... (or activity), a specific type of bodily change. It is the realization of a goal-directed essentially material capacity. This is the type of capacity required if desire is to be the efficient cause of bodily movements, their origin and controller. Its form, if constituted by this capacity, needs to be, in its...

...This chapter argues that to dance is to connect and challenges the materialist idea—inclined against dancing—that humans are individuals first and foremost who choose to enter into relationships our bodily movements create with those who support us in becoming who we are. In other words, every...

..., the two very different models of performance provided by Tamil Nadu in respect of the body, and the specific use of bodily movement in possession. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the role of the body of habit in female possession and how possession seeks to break with the body of habit. affect...

...This chapter examines kinesthesia, which is a sense found in tendons and muscles, mediated by bodily movement, and discusses the way it is not only highly valued in many Anlo-speaking contexts, but is also integrally bound up with Anlo ways of expressing and understanding morality. It introduces...