Content and Comportment: On Embodiment and the Epistemic Availability of the World

Content and Comportment: On Embodiment and the Epistemic Availability of the World

Michael O’Donovan-Anderson
Role: Author

In this ambitious and compelling book, Michael O’Donovan-Anderson argues that the answer to some long-standing questions in epistemology and metaphysics lies in taking up the neglected question of the role of our bodily activity in establishing connections between representational states – knowledge and belief in particular – and their objects in the world. O’Donovan-Anderson uses ideas from both analytic philosophers (Frege, Dummett, Davidson, and Evans) and continental philosophers (Heidegger and his commentators and critics) to bring together these two approaches in a unique and effective way.