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Bluhm, Katharina

Cassirer, Heidegger and the cognitive cciences

2021 - Bibliopolis

P. 35-92

  • In this paper I ask, how an approach with self-asserted incompatibility to any biological research program whatsoever, and heavy ethical contaminations, the Heidegger approach, received a positive role in the development of the Cognitive Sciences, while Cassirer's work is absent – absent in such a way that it partially got newly invented, in the partial (and comparably problematic) reinvention of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms under the name of the Extended Mind. Heidegger denies animality, he accuses biological research to be reifying and charges the reference to the body of being Cartesian. Cassirer in contrast, has not only a mature account of biological self-organization, his work is anchored in close transdisciplinary structures of co-operation and communication in Hamburg and beyond. Nonetheless, Heidegger-based considerations got a positive rolein overcoming the over intellectualistic and disembodied account of the early Cognitive Sciences. [Publisher's text]

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Cassirer studies : XIII/XIV, 2020/2021