Module PHL2015 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2015: Body and Mind
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- phenomenology and embodiment;
- cognitive science and embodiment;
- perception and embodiment;
- the limits of embodiment;
- disruptions of embodiment;
- gender and embodiment;
- memory and embodiment;
- sociality and embodiment;
- aesthetics and embodiment.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 123 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 11 x 2-hour lecture/discussions. |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 5 | Fortnightly 1 hour tutorials |
| Guided Independent Study | 63 | Assigned readings for each lecture, preparation for class discussion |
| Guided Independent Study | 60 | Private study, preparation for essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Gallagher, S. and Zahavi, D. (2008). Chapter 7: “The Embodied Mind”. In The Phenomenological Mind, Routledge, 129-151.
Heinämaa, S. (2012). “The Body.” In S. Luft and S. Overgaard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, Routledge, 222-232.
Wilson, M. (2001). “Six Views of Embodied Cognition”, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 625-636.
Dawson, M. (2014). “Embedded and Situated Cognition.” In L. Shapiro (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition. Routledge, 59-67.
Rowlands. M. (2010). Chapter 3: “The Mind Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended”. In The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology, MIT Press, 51-84.
Aizawa, K. (2014). “Extended Cognition.” In L. Shapiro (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, Routledge, 31-38.
Cole, J. (1998). “On Being Faceless: Selfhood and Facial Embodiment”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5-6, 467-484.
Fuchs, T., & Schlimme, J. E. (2009). “Embodiment and Psychopathology: A Phenomenological Perspective”, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 22, 570–575.
Young, I. (1980). “Throwing Like a Girl”, Human Studies, 3, 137-156.
Merritt, M. (2014). “Making (Non)sense of Gender.” In M. Cappuccio and
T. Froese (eds.), Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making: Making Sense of Non-Sense, Palgrave Macmillan, 285-306.
Colombetti, G. (2014). Chapter 5: “How the Body Feels in Emotion Experience.” In The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind, MIT Press, 113-134.
Maise, M. (2014). “Body and Emotion.” In L. Shapiro (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, Routledge, 31-38.
Gallagher, S. and Zahavi, D. (2008). Chapter 9: “How We Know Others.” The Phenomenological Mind.
Spaulding, S. (2014). “Embodied Cognition and Theory of Mind.” In L. Shapiro (ed.), The Routledge
Handbook of Embodied Cognition, Routledge, 197-206.
Menary, R. (2008). “Embodied Narratives.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, 63-84.
Sutton, J. and Williamson, K. (2014). “Embodied Remembering.” In L. Shapiro (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, Routledge, 315-325.
Krueger, J. (2014) “Affordances and the Musically Extended Mind”, Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 1-13.
