Is the only book that addresses this much debated issue from different perspectives, including phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the cognitive sciences
Promotes critical reflection and stimulates interdisciplinary discussion and exchange

Advances understanding of the situatedness and implacement of experience and action

Autorentext

Thomas Hünefeldt, Ph.D. in Philosophy (Tübingen, 2002) and in Cognitive Psychology (Rome, 2008), is adjunct professor at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). From 2013-2016 he was postdoc research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Academy "Philosophy of Place" at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany).

Dr. Annika Schlitte,Ph.D. in philosophy (Bochum 2010), is junior professor for philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). From 2011-2016 she was postdoc research fellow and speaker of the Interdisciplinary Research Academy "Philosophy of Place" at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Situatedness and Place (Thomas Hünefeldt).- 2. Edges of Places (Edward Casey).- 3. Projecting Ourselves into Space: The Embodied Experience of Exploring Mars through Robotic Laboratories (William J. Clancey).- 4. Situating Interaction in Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space: Phenomenology, Social Psychology and Neuroscience (Shaun Gallagher).- 5. Virtual Places as Real Places. About the Distinction Between Fiction and Interactive Virtual Reality (Tobias Holischka).- 6. The Situatedness of Cognition and the Place of the Mind (Thomas Hünefeldt).- 7. Place and Placedness (Jeff Malpas).- 8. Human-Immersion-in-Place: Phenomenology, Body-Subject, and Environmental Embodiment (David Seamon).- 9. Place, Position, Situation Thinking with Helmuth Plessner (Annika Schlitte).- 10. A Sense of (Non)-Place: A Phenomenological Analysis (Dylan Trigg).- 11. Thinking in and out of Place (Barbara Tversky).- 12. Spatialityof Shared Intentionality and Language Universals: A Philosophical Reflection (Tsutomu Ben Yagi).