Talk:Philosophy of action
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It appears that my single best-attributed article was removed by those who claim that the field doesn't exist, LDC and Sanger. So much for the theory that citation and attribution matters. This article is almost pure quotes, and now I expect to hear more absurd objection from the inferior intellects 24
Out of charity, I have heard certain body-hating militant queer or anti-queer philosophers, deny that this field exists, some of them even proposing to "do away with body" by such means as "downloading" into predictable and immortal robot bodies, etc., a common goal of Extropians and gollums seeking to build "artificial intelligence" without a mother. So, the terror of this field and its insights is not one that is wholly confined to LDC and Sanger... or any other couple. 24
The following was removed:
- A more fundamental school of body philosophers are usually associated with advocacy, especially of feminism or postmodernism, but are difficult to characterize in philosophers' terms. Advocates often reject the traditional division into ethics, epistemology and metaphysics - as did the American [William James]?.
24 has all but admitted that the term "body philosopher" was invented by him. So it has to be cut.
- It is often the advocates view that it is insensible to consider seeing, saying, or doing without the bodies that perform these actions. The broader more generally accepted (circa 2002) critique that is concerned with the impact of language and society on body in general is usually called postmodernism - but it could be said to include many of the theories covered here.
What advocates are we talking about here? Advocates for what?
- Out of respect or at least interest in an emerging field and for the interested local users and contributors; this material is further developed below in conformance with our local NPOV policy.
There doesn't seem to be an emerging field of this title, since the 2002 conference about Philosophy of Action doesn't mention body philosophy, postmodernism, feminism or any of those fields that 24 wishes to connect. AxelBoldt, Friday, April 12, 2002
Although 24 seems to have a rather uninformed view of philosophy, there is a great deal of work being done nowadays in what is better called embodied philosophy of mind; many cognitive scientists and philosophers do take seriously the view that many or most facts about action, perception, and thought, are inseparable from facts about the body they take place in. (Andy Clark and John Haugeland are just a couple of examples here.) But these are actual scholars, not "feminists and postmodernists."