期刊名称：Collegium : Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
印刷版ISSN：1796-2986
出版年度：2012
卷号：12
出版社：Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
摘要：Recent developments in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind point to a
radically new way of understanding the way that culture comes to be embodied in
human agents. According to these emerging perspectives, persons can only embody
culture in the form of procedure: context sensitive skills for the fast categorization,
perception and exploitation of the response-dependent properties of objects and
settings. Procedures are fundamentally and irreducibly embodied, while a lot of
what we refer to as culture exists in an externalized, objectified form. This means
that the format in which culture is externally encountered is radically distinct from
the one in which it is embodied. This (re)opens the problematic of the linkage or
interfacing between external and objectified culture, a central problem in cultural
theory that became obfuscated, and spuriously ¡°resolved¡± by phenomenological
and functionalist theorists who presumed that culture is internalized in the same
way in which it appears in external form. I close by outlining the implications for
thinking of embodied culture as procedure, as well as developing novel ways of
understanding how persons “interface” with the external world of objectified cultural
objects and artifacts.
