to ICLC Program 2003

Introductory Bibliography to Research on “Embodiment”

(including assorted URLs for web pages on Biosemiotics
 for those of you who requested them).

Prepared by Roslyn M. Frank, Michael Houser,
Tom Ziemke, Jordan Zlatev, and René Dirven

(Draft Version 11.04.03)

General Introductory Bibliography:

Abram, David (1996). Merleau-Ponty and the voice of the Earth. In: David Macauley (ed.) Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology, 82-101. New York/London.

Anderson, Michael (2003). Embodied Cognition: A field guide. Artificial Intelligence 149(1): 91-130.

Chrisley, Ronald, and Tom Ziemke (2002). Embodiment. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 1102-1108. Macmillan Publishers. http://www.ida.his.se/~tom/ECS.pdf [10.14.03]

Cienki, Alan (1999). Metaphors and cultural models as profiles and bases. In: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 189-203. Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

Clark, Andy (1999). An embodied cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Science 9: 345-351.

_____. (1997). Being There - Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Csordas, Thomas J. (in press). The Body in Anthropology. In: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science, Ltd.

______. (1999). Embodiment and cultural phenomenology. In: Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber (eds.), Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, 143-162. New York: Routledge.

_______. (1990). Embodiment as a Paradigm in Anthropology. Ethnos 18: 5-18.

Csordas, Thomas J. (ed.) (1994). Embodiment and Experience. The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. London: Cambridge University Press.

Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Stuart E. Dreyfus (1999). The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science. In: Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber (eds.), Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, 103-120. New York: Routledge.

Emmeche, Claus, and Hoffmeyer, Jesper (1991). From Language to Nature: The Semiotic Metaphor in Biology. Semiotica 84(1/2): 1-42. http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/cePubl/91a.frolan.html [10.14.03]

Emmeche, Claus, Kalevi Kull and Frederik Stjernfelt (2002). Reading Hoffmeyer, Rethinking Biology. Tartu: Tartu University Press. Tartu Semiotics Library 3.

Fettes, Mark (1999). “Critical realism and ecological psychology: Foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition.” A paper for the Ecology of Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Amsterdam, 11-15 January 1999. http://esperantic.org/~mfettes/critical.htm [10.14.03]

Frank, Roslyn M. (2003). Shifting identities: The metaphorics of nature-culture dualism in Western and Basque models of self. Metaphorik.de. 04/2003. http://www.metaphorik.de/04/frank.pdf [10.10.03]

Frank, Roslyn M., and Mikel Susperregi 2001. Conflicting identities: A comparative study of non-commensurate root metaphors in Basque and European image schemata.  In: René Dirven, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), Language and Ideology. Vol. 2. Cognitive Descriptive Approaches, 135-160. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Cf. for expanded online version: http://ibs.lgu.ac.uk/icl/ROZMIKEL.PDF [accessed 10.14.03]]   

Gallagher, Shaun (1995) Body schema and intentionality. In: José Bermúdez, Noami Eilan, Anthony Marcel (eds.), The Body and the Self, 225-244. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Gallagher, Shaun, and Jonathan Cole (1995). Body schema and body image in a deafferented subject. Journal of Mind and Behavior 16: 369-390; reprinted in: Donna Welton (ed.), Body and Flesh: A Philosophical Reader, 131-147.  Oxford: Blackwell. [cf. for preprint version: http://www2.canisius.edu/~gallaghr/gall&cole95.html ; accessed 10.14.03]

Gibbs, Raymond (1999): Taking metaphor out of our heads and putting it into the cultural world. In: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., and Gerard J. Steen (eds.): Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 145-166. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Hoffmeyer, Jesper (1997). Signs of meaning in the Universe. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

______. (1991). The Changing Concept of Information in the Study of Life. Paper Prepared for the Symposium "Nature and Culture in the Development of Knowledge. A Quest for Missing Links". Uppsala, 8-11 September 1993. http://www.molbio.ku.dk/molbiopages/abk/personalpages/Jesper/History.html [10.14.03]

Hoffmeyer, Jesper, and Claus Emmeche (guest editors) (1999). Semiotica. Special Issue: Biosemiotica, Vol. 127 (1/4). (Semiotica, Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. Published by Mouton de Gruyter - Berlin, New York). http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/pr/99Biosemiotica.html [10.14.03] [This journal should be available to you online through your university library]

______. (1991): Code-duality and the semiotics of nature. In: Myrdene Anderson and Floyd Merrell (eds.), On Semiotic Modeling, 117-166. Berlin/New York. http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/coPubl/91.JHCE/codedual.html [10.14.03]

Hoy, David Couzens (1999). Critical resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu. In: Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber (eds.), Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, 3-21. New York: Routledge.

Johnson, Mark (1999). Embodied reason. In: Gail Weiss, and Honi Fern Haber (eds.), Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, 143-162. New York: Routledge.

______. (1987). The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Kull, Kalevi (guest editor) (2001). Semiotica. Special Issue: Jakob von Uexküll: A Paradigm for Biology and Semiotics 134 (1/4). http://www.degruyter.de/journals/semiotica/sem134_1-4.html [10.14.03]

Lakoff, George, and Johnson Mark (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.

_____. (1980). Metaphors We Live By, Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.

Lakoff, George, and Rafael Nuñez. (2000). Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. New York: Basic Books.

Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. (1980). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 42. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1962). Phenomenology of Perception, trans. C. Smith, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Nuñez, Rafael (1999). Could the Future Taste Purple? Reclaiming Mind, Body and Cognition. Journal of Consciousness Studies 6(11-12): 41-60.

Nuñez, Rafael, and Walter J. Freeman (eds.) (1999). Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion. Bowling Green, OH: Imprint Academic.

Rohrer, Tim (2001). Pragmatics, ideology & embodiment: William James and the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics. In: René Dirven, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu (eds.), Language and Ideology. Volume 1: Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, 49-81. John Benjamins: Amsterdm/Philadelphia. http://www.hum.au.dk/semiotics/docs/epub/arc/tr/prag/pragmatism.html [10.14.03]

Roth, W.-M. (2002). From action to discourse: the bridging function of gestures. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research 3: 535-554.

Sinha, C. (in press). Biology, culture and the emergence and elaboration of symbolization. In: A. Saleemi, A. Gjedde and O.-S. Bohn (eds.) In Search of a Language for the Mind-Brain: Can the Multiple Perspectives be Unified? Aarhus, Aarhus University Press.

Sinha, Chris (1999). Grounding, mapping and acts of meaning. In: Theo Janssen and Gisela Redeker (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope and Methodology, 223-255. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. http://www.formes-symboliques.org/IMG/pdf/doc-41.pdf  [10.14.03]

Sinha, Chris, and Jensen de Lopez, Kristine (2000). Language, Culture and the Embodiment of Spatial Cognition. Cognitive Linguistics 11(1/2): 17-41.

Steels, Luc (2000). Language as a complex adaptive system. In: Marc Schoenauer, et al (eds)Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature –PPSN-VI, 17-26. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. http://arti.vub.ac.be/steels/ppsn2000.pdf [10.14.03]

______. (2000). The puzzle of language evolution. Kognitionwissenschaft 8(4): 143-150.

Strathern, Andrew J. (1996). Body Thoughts. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Thompson, Evan, and Varela, Francisco J. (2001). Radical embodiment: neural dynamics and consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5: 418-425.

Uno, Ryoko, and Takashi Ikegami (forthcoming). Joint-attentiveness, prediction and language: A mechanism of showing intentionality. Papers in Cognitive Linguistics 2. Tokyo: Hitsuzi.

Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch (1991). The Embodied Mind. Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press.

von Uexküll, Jacob (1982). The theory of meaning. Semiotica 42(1): 25-82.

Weiss, Gail (2003). Can an old dog learn new tricks? Habitual horizons in James, Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty. Cultural Matters 2 (Spring): n.p. http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu/cultural_matters/issue2/index.html [10.14.03]

Wilson, Margaret (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 9: 625-636. http://philosophy.wisc.edu/shapiro/PHIL951/951articles/wilson.htm [10.27.03]

Yamamoto, Mutsumi (1999). Animacy and Reference: A Cognitive Approach to Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Ziemke, Tom (2003). What's that thing called embodiment? In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum. http://www.ida.his.se/~tom/cogsci03.pdf [10.14.03]

_____. (2002). Introduction to the special issue on situated and embodied cognition. Cognitive Systems Research 3(3) (September): 271-274. Abstract: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=IssueURL&_tockey=%23TOC%236595%232002%23999969996%23351554%23FLA%23Volume_3,_Issue_3,_Pages_271-554_(September_2002)&_auth=y&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7e1cba693e85befabefa3ecadaa28dd7 [10.14.03]

_____. (2001). Are Robots Embodied?. In: Christian Balkenius, Jordan Zlatev, Cynthia Breazeal, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Hideki Kozima (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, 75-93. Lund University Cognitive Studies, vol. 85, Lund, Sweden. http://www.ida.his.se/~tom/EpiRob.web.pdf [10.14.03]

_____. (2001). The Construction of 'Reality' in the Robot. Foundations of Science, 6(1): 163-233. http://www.ida.his.se/~tom/FoS.web.pdf [10.14.03]

_____. (1999). Rethinking grounding. In: Alexander Riegler, Markus Peschl, and Astrid von Stein (eds.): Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences, 177-190. New York. http://www.his.se/ida/~tom/grounding.pdf [10.14.03]

Ziemke, Tom, and Noel E. Sharkey (2001). A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals: Applying Jakob von Uexküll's theory of meaning to adaptive robots and artificial life. Semiotica, 134(1/4): 701-746. http://www.ida.his.se/~tom/Semiotica.web.pdf [10.14.03]

Zlatev, Jordan (in press). Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning. Evolution ofCommunication 4(2): 253-296.
http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Jordan.Zlatev/Papers/eoc.4-2.pdf [10.14.03]

Zlatev, Jordan (2001). The epigenesis of meaning in human beings, and possibly in robots. Minds and Machines 11(2): 155-195. http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Jordan.Zlatev/Papers/Epigenesis.pdf [10.14.03]

Zlatev, Jordan (2002). Mimesis: the “missing link” between signals and symbols in phylogeny and ontology? In: Anneli Pajunen (ed.), Mimesis, Sign and Language Evolution, 93-122. Publications in General Linguistics 3, University of Turku, Finland. http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Jordan.Zlatev/Papers/Missinglink.pdf [10.14.03]

Zlatev, Jordan (1997). Situated embodiment: Studies in the emergence of spatial meaning. Stockholm: Gotab.

Biosemiotics URLS:

Biosemiotics. Online Papers in Biosemiotics: http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/biosem/biosem.html#papers [10.14.03]

Gatherings in Biosemiotics. (2003). http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/pr/gath.2003/gath.2003.cfp.html [10.14.03]

Jakob von Uexküll Centre. Postal address: Struve St. 2, P.O. Box 43, Tartu, Estonia. E-mail: j.v.uexkull@zbi.ee. Web Page: http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/ [10.14.03]

Major Publications in Biosemiotics:

http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/biosemiotics/bibl.htm [10.14.03]


 
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