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  1. Introduction: The Varieties of Enactivism.Dave Ward, David Silverman & Mario Villalobos - 2017 - Topoi 36 (3):365-375.
    This introduction to a special issue of Topoi introduces and summarises the relationship between three main varieties of 'enactivist' theorising about the mind: 'autopoietic', 'sensorimotor', and 'radical' enactivism. It includes a brief discussion of the philosophical and cognitive scientific precursors to enactivist theories, and the relationship of enactivism to other trends in embodied cognitive science and philosophy of mind.
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  2. Bodily skill and internal representation in sensorimotor perception.David Silverman - 2018 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (1):157-173.
    The sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience claims that perception is constituted by bodily interaction with the environment, drawing on practical knowledge of the systematic ways that sensory inputs are disposed to change as a result of movement. Despite the theory’s associations with enactivism, it is sometimes claimed that the appeal to ‘knowledge’ means that the theory is committed to giving an essential theoretical role to internal representation, and therefore to a form of orthodox cognitive science. This paper defends the role (...)
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  3. Sensorimotor enactivism and temporal experience.David Silverman - 2013 - Adaptive Behavior 21 (3):151-158.
    O’Regan and Noë’s sensorimotor approach rejects the old-fashioned view that perceptual experience in humans depends solely on the activation of internal representations. Reflecting a wealth of empirical work, for example active vision, the approach suggests that perceiving is, instead, a matter of bodily exploration of the outside environment. To this end, the approach says the perceiver must deploy knowledge of sensorimotor contingencies, the ways sense input changes with movement by the perceiver or object perceived. Clark has observed that the approach (...)
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    Extended functionalism, radical enactivism, and the autopoietic theory of cognition: prospects for a full revolution in cognitive science.Mario Villalobos & David Silverman - 2018 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (4):719-739.
    Recently, Michael Wheeler has argued that despite its sometimes revolutionary rhetoric, the so called 4E cognitive movement, even in the guise of ‘radical’ enactivism, cannot achieve a full revolution in cognitive science. A full revolution would require the rejection of two essential tenets of traditional cognitive science, namely internalism and representationalism. Whilst REC might secure antirepresentationalism, it cannot do the same, so Wheeler argues, with externalism. In this paper, expanding on Wheeler’s analysis, we argue that what compromises REC’s externalism is (...)
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  5. Sensorimotor theory and the problems of consciousness.David Silverman - 2017 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 24 (7-8):189-216.
    The sensorimotor theory is an influential account of perception and phenomenal qualities that builds, in an empirically supported way, on the basic claim that conscious experience is best construed as an attribute of the whole embodied agent's skill-driven interactions with the environment. This paper, in addition to situating the theory as a response to certain well-known problems of consciousness, develops a sensorimotor account of why we are perceptually conscious rather than not.
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  6. Tying the Knot: Why Representationalists should Endorse the Sensorimotor Theory of Conscious Feel.David Silverman - 2016 - Philosophical Quarterly 66 (263):pqv097.
    The sensorimotor theory of perception and consciousness is frequently presented as a variety of anti-representationalist cognitive science, and there is thus a temptation to suppose that those who take representation as bedrock should reject the approach. This paper argues that the sensorimotor approach is compatible with representationalism, and moreover that representationalism about phenomenal qualities, such as that advocated by Tye, would be more complete and less vulnerable to criticism if it incorporated the sensorimotor account of conscious feel. The paper concludes (...)
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    The material word: some theories of language and its limits.David Silverman - 1980 - Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Edited by Brian Torode.
    The assumption, that speech is merely the appearance of an external reality to which it refers, is here reversed, in order to shift attention to speech as a ...
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    Reading Castaneda: a prologue to the social sciences.David Silverman - 1975 - London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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    The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its Limits.Alexander Nehamas, David Silverman & Brian Torode - 1981 - Philosophical Review 90 (1):122.
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    The sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience.David Silverman - unknown
    The sensorimotor theory is an influential, non-mainstream account of perception and perceptual consciousness intended to improve in various ways on orthodox theories. It is often taken to be a variety of enactivism, and in common with enactivist cognitive science more generally, it de-emphasises the theoretical role played by internal representation and other purely neural processes, giving theoretical pride of place instead to interactive engagements between the brain, non-neural body and outside environment. In addition to offering a distinctive account of the (...)
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    Correction to: Introduction: The Varieties of Enactivism.Dave Ward, David Silverman & Mario Villalobos - 2020 - Topoi 39 (2):499-499.
    The original article was published with incomplete acknowledgement. The complete acknowledgement section is given in this correction.
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    Beyond armed camps: A response to Stokoe.David Silverman - 2012 - Discourse Studies 14 (3):329-336.
    In this response, I examine the ambiguity about the status of Membership Categorization Device Analysis in the work of Harvey Sacks. The ‘five guiding principles’ of MCDA that Stokoe enunciates serve as a crucial guide to future research. In what follows, I give some further examples of data analysis which, I believe, supports both her strong and weaker claims.
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    Ancient Egyptian Kingship.Edward Bleiberg, David O'Connor & David P. Silverman - 1998 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 118 (2):286.
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    Ancient EgyptSearching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.Ronald J. Leprohon & David P. Silverman - 2000 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (2):235.
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    A Cross-Cultural Approach to the De-Ontological Self Paradigm.David A. DilworthHugh J. Silverman - 1978 - The Monist 61 (1):82-95.
    We propose in this paper to focus upon the de-ontological self concept discoverable in Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. In a larger study, we intend to contrast this “no self” paradigm with major pro-ontological formulations of the self concept. These pro-ontological definitions can be divided into three basic types, namely the absolute-universal self, the transcendental-constituting self, and the natural-organic self.
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    Routine pleasures: the aesthetics of the mundane.David Silverman - 2000 - In Stephen Linstead & Heather Höpfl (eds.), The aesthetics of organization. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. pp. 130--53.
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    Speaking Seriously.David Silverman - 1974 - Theory and Society 1 (3):341.
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    The Egyptian Temple: A Lexicographical Study.David P. Silverman & Patricia Spencer - 1990 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 110 (1):116.
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  19. Book Review. [REVIEW]David Silverman - 1990 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 110 (1):116-117.
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    Speaking seriously: Part II. [REVIEW]David Silverman - 1974 - Theory and Society 1 (3):341-359.
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    Speaking seriously: The language of grading. [REVIEW]David Silverman - 1974 - Theory and Society 1 (1):1-15.
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