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  • 7 - The Backside of Habit

  • from Part II - The Enactment of Habits in Mind and World
  • Edited by Fausto Caruana, Italo Testa, Università degli Studi, Parma
  • Book:
    Habits
    Published online:
    24 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 165-183

  • Summary

    In this chapter what I call the “backside” of habit is explored. I am interested in the philosophical implications of the physical and physiological processes that mediate, and which allow for what comes to appear as almost magic; namely the various sensorimotor associations and integrations that allow us to replay our past experiences, and to in a certain sense perceive potential futures, and to act and bring about anticipated outcomes – without quite knowing how. Thus, the term “backside” is meant to refer both the actual mediation and the epistemic opacity of these backstage intermediaries that allows for the front stage magic. The question is whether the epistemic complexities around sensorimotor mediation give us valuable insights into the nature of human agency and further how they might begin to show us new ways to think of the mind as truly embodied yet not reducible to any finite body-as-object.