TY - CHAP
T1 - The leap
T2 - the creative and liberatory potential of embodied thinking
AU - Schoeller, Donata
AU - Thorgeirsdottir, Sigridur
AU - Walkerden, Greg
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PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - In this chapter, we describe the shift from doing research in philosophy and the cognitive sciences that explores the embodied grounding of thinking, to practising being an embodied thinker in our researching, teaching, and learning. We survey the intellectual traditions that support the embodied turn, and focus particularly on the work of three researchers whose work supports enacting it, in practice: Eugene Gendlin's philosophy of the implicit, Francisco Varela's enactivist approach, and Petitmengin's micro-phenomenology. These have shaped our process of changing our practices. We indicate what we mean by body, and how an embodied orientation towards ourselves re-situates human thinking within the vulnerable living fabric of the more-than-human world. We discuss the kind of transformativity involved in embodied thinking. Finally, we address the societal needs that this interdisciplinary shift in practice responds to.
AB - In this chapter, we describe the shift from doing research in philosophy and the cognitive sciences that explores the embodied grounding of thinking, to practising being an embodied thinker in our researching, teaching, and learning. We survey the intellectual traditions that support the embodied turn, and focus particularly on the work of three researchers whose work supports enacting it, in practice: Eugene Gendlin's philosophy of the implicit, Francisco Varela's enactivist approach, and Petitmengin's micro-phenomenology. These have shaped our process of changing our practices. We indicate what we mean by body, and how an embodied orientation towards ourselves re-situates human thinking within the vulnerable living fabric of the more-than-human world. We discuss the kind of transformativity involved in embodied thinking. Finally, we address the societal needs that this interdisciplinary shift in practice responds to.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85203209364&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003397939-1
DO - 10.4324/9781003397939-1
M3 - Foreword/postscript/introduction
AN - SCOPUS:85203209364
SN - 9781032498720
SN - 9781032503189
T3 - Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
SP - 1
EP - 15
BT - Practicing embodied thinking in research and learning
A2 - Schoeller, Donata
A2 - Thorgeirsdottir, Sigridur
A2 - Walkerden, Greg
PB - Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
CY - London ; New York
ER -