Radical embodiment and semiotics: Toward a theory of mathematics in the flesh

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 267-284

  Thom, Jennifer S ^a   Roth, Wolff Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Flesh; Individual and collective knowings; Intentionality; Linguistic forms of thought; Living and experienced body; Material phenomenology; Mathematical knowledge; Semiotics; Spatial numerical knowings and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956298317     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-010-9293-y     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bourdieu, P. (1997). Méditations pascaliènnes [Pascalian thoughts]. Paris: Seuil.
2. Collins, R. (2004). Interaction ritual chains. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
3. Eco, U. (1986). Semiotics and the philosophy of language. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
4. Gadamer, H. G. (1989). Truth and method (J. Weinsheimer & D. G. Marshall, trans.), 2nd rev. ed. New York: Crossroads.
5. Heidegger, M. (1977). Sein und Zeit [Being and time]. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.
6. Henry, M. (1965). Philosophie et phénoménologie du corps: Essai sur l'ontologie biranienne [Philosophy and phenomenology of the body: Essay on Biranian ontology]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
7. Henry, M. (2000). Incarnation: Une philosophie de la chair [Incarnation: A philosophy of the flesh]. Paris: Seuil.
8. Henry, M. (2005). Voir l'invisible: sur Kandinsky [Seeing the invisible: On Kandisky]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
9. Lakoff, G., & Núñez, R. E. (2000). Where mathematics comes from: How the embodied mind brings mathematics into being. New York: Basic Books.
10. Maine de Biran, P. (1859). Ouvres inédites, tome II. [Unpublished works, vol. 2]. Paris: Dezobry & Magdeleine.
11. Maine de Biran, P. (1952). Mémoire sur la décomposition de la pensée [Notes on the deconstruction of thought]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
12. Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1969). Werke Band 23: Das Kapital [Capital: Marx and Engels' works, vol. 2]. Berlin: Dietz.
13. McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and mind: What gestures reveal about thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
14. Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945). Phénoménologie de la perception [Phenomenolgy of perception]. Paris: Gallimard.
15. Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). Le visible et l'invisible [The visible and invisible]. Paris: Gallimard.
16. Nancy, J.-L. (1993). The birth to presence. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
17. Nancy, J.-L. (2006). Corpus. Paris: Métaillé.
18. Radford, L., Edwards, L., & Arzarello, F. (2009). Introduction: Beyond words. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 70, 91-95.
19. Roth, W.-M. (2002). Gestures: Their role in teaching and learning. Review of Educational Research, 71, 365-392.
20. Roth, W.-M. (2009). Appreciating the embodied social nature of mathematical cognition. In W.-M. Roth (Ed.), Mathematical representation at the interface of body and culture (pp. 335-350). Charlotte: Information Age Publishing.
21. Roth, W.-M. (2010a). Incarnation: Radicalizing the embodiment in mathematics. For the Learning of Mathematics, 30(1), 2-9.
22. Roth, W.-M. (2010b). Language, learning, context: Talking the talk. London: Routledge.
23. Roth, W.-M., & Pozzer-Ardenghi, L. (2006). Tracking situated, distributed, and embodied communication in real time. In M. A. Vanchevsky (Ed.), Focus on cognitive psychology research (pp. 237-261). Hauppauge: Nova Science.
24. Sartre, J.-P. (1956). Being and nothingness. New York: Gramercy Books.
25. Sheets-Johnstone, M. (2009). The corporeal turn: An interdisciplinary reader. Exeter: Imprint Academic.
26. Thom, J. S., Roth, W.-M., & Bautista, A. (2010). In the flesh: Living growing conceptual domains in a geometry lesson. Complicity, 7, 77-87.
27. Varela, F. (1999). Ethical know-how: Action, wisdom, and cognition. Stanford: Stanford University.
28. Vygotsky, L. S. (1986). Thought and language. Cambridge: MIT Press.