@article{Vender2011,
author = "David Vender",
title = "{Is Balancing Emblematic of Action? Two or Three Pointers from Reid and Peirce}",
year = 2011,
journal = "Humana Mente",
volume = 15,
pages = "251-270",
abstract = "{Defining actions in contradistinction to mere happenings runs into the
problem of specifying the role of the agent and separating what the agent does
from what they exploit or suffer. Traditionally these problems have been
approached by starting with a simple act, such as an incidental movement, and
considering causality, or by seeking to elucidate the connection between the
act and the agent‟s intentions or reasons. It is suggested here that a promising
approach is to shift attention from „simple‟ movements and start instead by
exploring the general character of acquired skills. Balancing the body is one
such skill and serves here as an exemplar. Some remarks made by Reid on
balance are used in a Peircean framework for perception to suggest that, at
least for humans, an action is always the performance of an acquired skill. Also,
while action is constitutive of perception, bodily perception is the basis of
action, providing in a feeling of ownership direct knowledge of an asymmetric
opposition between the agent and the world.}",
url = "http://www.humanamente.eu/PDF/Issue15_Paper_Vender.pdf",
keywords = "Balance, Action, Acquired Habit, Perception, Thomas Reid",
language = "English",
note = "From the Commens Bibliography | \url{http://www.commens.org/bibliography/journal_article/vender-david-2011-balancing-emblematic-action-two-or-three-pointers}"
}
