Knowing without Thinking

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Z.Radman The Mystery of the Background qua Background; H.L.Dreyfus PART I: ECHOING SEARLE'S AND DREYFUS' VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Ground-Level Intelligence:Action-Oriented Representation and the Dynamics of the Background; M.Cappuccio & M.Wheeler Exposing the Background: Deep and Local; D.D.Hutto The Background as Intentional, Conscious, and Nonconceptual; M.Schmitz Social Cognition, the Chinese Room, and the Robot Replies; S.Gallagher Contesting John's Searle' Social Ontology: Institutions and Background; J.Margolis Music and the Background; D.Schmicking PART II: EXTENDED VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Implicit Precision; E.T.Gendlin Enkinaesthesia: The Essential Sensuous Background for Co-Agency; S.A.J.Stuart Steps Entailed in Foregrounding the Background: Taking the Challenge of Languaging Experience Seriously; M.Sheets-Johnstone The Body as Background: Pragmatism and Somasthetics; R.Shusterman The Background: A Tool of Potentiality; Z.Radman Embodied Technology as Implicit Knowledge of Modern Civilization; K.Mainzer Index