Interactional Expertise and Embodiment
Interactional Expertise and Embodiment
The first part of this chapter introduces the idea of interactional expertise, while the second part focuses on its implications for philosophical theories of the importance of the body in forming our conceptual world. The chapter argues that the way philosophers have dealt with the body turns attention away from the most important questions and that we cannot answer these questions without making the notion of socialization, and therefore interactional expertise, a central concept in our thinking. This makes language at least as important, and often more important than bodily practice in our understanding of the world. The notion of a disembodied socialized agent leads in the direction of interesting questions while the notion of an embodied but unsocialized human actor is unimaginable.
Keywords: interactional expertise, language, embodiment, Dreyfus, socialization
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