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    On the difficulties to resurrect the beyond. A commentary on the article Learning beyond the body by Juan-Ignacio Pozo / Sobre las dificultades para resucitar el más allá. Un comentario sobre el artículo Aprender más allá del cuerpo de Juan-Ignacio Pozo

    Nemirovsky, R (2017) On the difficulties to resurrect the beyond. A commentary on the article Learning beyond the body by Juan-Ignacio Pozo / Sobre las dificultades para resucitar el más allá. Un comentario sobre el artículo Aprender más allá del cuerpo de Juan-Ignacio Pozo. Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 40 (4). pp. 689-700. ISSN 0210-3702

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    Abstract

    This commentary follows Pozo’s critique of psychological theories rooted in the ‘cognitive revolution’ prompted by the emergence of computer technologies in the mid-twentieth century. The core of his criticism is the assumption of the mind/body dualism built in these theories. Pozo makes the case for an approach striving to integrate mind and body while postulating the notion of a basic incarnate mind, which grows beyond the restrictions of the body by mastering the symbolic formal systems of our culture. I argue that this vision smooths the mind/body dualism without overcoming it. I elaborate on four areas in which Pozo’s theory coincides with assumptions characteristic of the mind/body dualism: explicitness, formal notations, animal cognition and representations.

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