Abstract This article presents the work of the neglected philosopher and mystic Gerda Walther (1897–1977) as a work of modernist philosophy. It offers an analysis of Walther's two most important texts, Ein Beitrag zur Ontologie der sozialen Gemeinschaften (1922) and Zur Phänomenologie der Mystik (1923), written during Walther's involvement in the Freiburg and Munich circles of early...
ABSTRACT: This article discusses how the formation of abstract concepts in the brain is related to the basic mechanisms of perception and motor action. It also provides an overview of the neuroscientific techniques currently used to investigate these processes.
German Life and LettersSeptember 8, 2017Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren, Lore Knapp, Charlotte Lee3 citations
The period around 1800 offers sophisticated, diverse accounts of how the body shapes thought and knowledge.1 Yet, according to George Lakoff, in 2001:for over two thousand years, philosophers have mostly viewed the mind as disembodied.[...] But over the last two decades [...] [a] new understanding of the mind has emerged, empirically based and freed from age-old philosophical baggage.The new...