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Applying Intelligence to the Reflexes: Embodied Skills and Habits between Dreyfus and Descartes

John Sutton, Doris McIlwain, Wayne Christensen, Andrew Geeves

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 2011 DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2011.11006732 (opens in new tab)

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Key points Argues that Dreyfus's account of embodied skills remains Cartesian in its separation of intellect and reflex, and proposes that habits incorporate a form of embodied intelligence that allows for rational adjustment without explicit deliberation.

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(2011). Applying Intelligence to the Reflexes: Embodied Skills and Habits between Dreyfus and Descartes. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Habit, pp. 78-103.