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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Cadernos, pincéis e netbooks : modulações tecnológicas em uma escola da rede pública de ensino básico

Spohr, Fúlvia da Silva January 2015 (has links)
Este estudo aborda a questão da inserção tecnológica de uma escola da rede pública de ensino básico sob a perspectiva da relação de modulação dessa rede sócio-técnica que inclui a cognição os objetos técnicos e a instituição, como decorrentes da resolução de uma operação problemática que se atualiza. Deste modo foi acompanhado um processo de distribuição de computadores portáteis (netbooks) a uma comunidade escolar da rede de ensino fundamental observando alguns dos efeitos éticos, estéticos e políticos que emergiram do encontro dos sujeitos com a tecnologia. À partir do método cartográfico evidenciamos quais foram os efeitos que se produziram no encontro da comunidade escolar com a tecnologia digital advinda do atravessamento de diferentes politicas públicas que agenciadas constituíram a instauração de um projeto de inserção tecnológica. Assim, observamos que a modulação de uma rede que inclui entre outros atravessamentos, as políticas públicas em educação, a potência de indeterminação de uma tecnologia digital e os sujeitos em uma concepção de cognição concreta e corporificada, ocorre quando, nesse agenciamento são produzidos novos modos de fazer, no qual conhecimento e realidade surgem inseparáveis. No contexto desta pesquisa, essa inseparatividade, ocorre quando se desloca a tecnologia de uma perspectiva instrumental e utilitária para uma posição de ação ética e de autoria. Assim, ao colocar em debate, algumas resoluções as quais os sujeitos foram encontrando a partir de sua experiência enatuada e situada, observamos o favorecimento de práticas no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, as quais possibilitaram a atribuição de novos sentidos ao fazer docente e discente. Destacamos que a ressignificação da realidade permitiu conservar uma política recognitiva e gerar também novos modos de conhecer em uma política da invenção, redefinindo alguns limites dessa rede nos planos individuais, técnicos e institucionais. / This study approaches the technology insertion issue in a public school of basic education from the perspective of the modulation relation of this socio-technical network that includes cognition, technical objects and the institution, as a result of a resolution of a problematic transaction that it updates. Therefore, the distribution process of portable computers (netbooks) to a school community in an elementary school was accompanied, observing some of the ethical, aesthetic and politicians effects which emerged from the meeting of the individuals with technology. From the cartographic method we evidenced which were the effects that took place at the meeting of the school community with the digital technology originated from the implications of different public policies that agencied constituted the establishment of the insertion of a technological project. Thus, we observed that modulation of a network that includes among other implications, the public policies on education, the power of indeterminacy of a digital technology and the individuals in a concrete and embodied cognition conception, occurs when, in this agency are produced new ways of making, in which knowledge and reality appear inseparable. In the context of this research, this inseparability, occurs when technology is moved from an instrumental and utilitarian perspective to a position of ethical action and authoring. So, to put in debate, some resolutions which the individuals were finding from their embodied and located experience, we noted the encouraging of teaching and learning practices, which allowed the allocation of new senses to the making process of faculty and students. We emphasize that resignification of reality, allowed to retain a recognitive policy and also generate new ways of knowing in a politics of invention, redefining some limits of this network on individual, technical and institutional plans.
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The Evolution of the Computation Project for an Artificial Intelligence and the new Perspectives Offered by the Advances of the Enactive Cognition / A evoluÃÃo do projeto computacional para uma inteligÃncia artificial e as novas perspectivas oferecidas pelos avanÃos da cogniÃÃo enativa.

Carlos Roberto Rodrigues Filho 30 November 2012 (has links)
FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / O desenvolvimento da Ãrea de InteligÃncia Artificial (IA) trouxe grandes avanÃos para a resoluÃÃo de problemas computacionalmente difÃceis. No entanto, a meta inicial da IA, de implementaÃÃo de uma inteligÃncia genuÃna de forma artificial, ainda nÃo foi alcanÃada. Por isso, a grande maioria dos pesquisadores da Ãrea mudou o foco de suas pesquisas para resoluÃÃo de problemas, em geral abandonando a meta de uma inteligÃncia artificial. Para continuar perseguindo essa meta, outros pesquisadores passaram a questionar os princÃpios filosÃficos da IA e tomar novos rumos. Alguns deles perceberam que o processo da inteligÃncia nÃo à puramente mental. De acordo com essa nova visÃo, o corpo tem um papel fundamental no processo cognitivo. A partir desse ponto de vista, visando superar obstÃculos tradicionais da IA, surgiu a IA Corporificada. Esta tem uma forte tendÃncia a implementaÃÃo em robÃs, para se desenvolver um melhor projeto sobre o corpo. PorÃm, apesar de ter obtido avanÃos em relaÃÃo a problema da IA tradicional, a IA Corporificada comeÃou a apresentar suas prÃprias limitaÃÃes. Surgiu entÃo a ideia de que um agente genuinamente inteligente deve formular seus prÃprios problemas a partir da percepÃÃo da realidade, construÃda em termo do seus aparato sensÃrio-motor. Em outras palavras, a inteligÃncia genuÃna està ligada à autonomia do agente. A IA Enativa surgiu influenciada por estudos biolÃgicos a respeito da autonomia. Nessa Ãrea da IA a meta à construir um agente artificial autÃnomo. Este trabalho relata a trajetÃria da IA desde a sua fundaÃÃo, passando pela vertente da IA Corporificada, e apontando um possÃvel novo paradigma da IA Enativa. AlÃm disso, nÃs Analisamos e discutimos os processos que levaram pesquisadores a questionar o embasamento filosÃfico da IA e a formular novos conceitos a respeito do que à inteligÃncia. / The development in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field brought great improvement to the resolution of computationally hard problems. However, the early goal of AI, of implementing a genuine intelligence in an artificial way, was not achieved. Therefore most of the fieldâs researchers changed their researchâs focus to problem resolution, quitting the goal of an artificial intelligence. To keep pursuing that goal others researchers started questioning the philosophical principles of AI and they took new routes. Some of them realized that the process of intelligence is not purely mental. According to this new view the body has a fundamental role in the cognitive process. From this point of view, aiming to overcome traditional obstacles of AI, the Embodied AI emerged. It has a strong tendency to implementation in robots, to develop a better design of the body. Despite having achieved improvements over the problem of traditional AI, Embodied AI started to present its own limitations. Then came the idea that a genuinely intelligent agent must formulate its own problems from the perception of reality, constructed in terms of their sensory-motor apparatus. In other words, the genuine intelligence is linked to the agentâs autonomy. The Enactive AI appeared influenced by biological studies about autonomy. In this AI field the goal is to build an autonomous artificial agent. This paper reports the trajectory of AI since its foundation, through strand of Embodied AI, and pointing to a possible new paradigm of Enactive AI. In addition, we analyse and discuss the processes that led researchers to question the philosophical basis of IA and formulate new concepts about what intelligence is.
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Cadernos, pincéis e netbooks : modulações tecnológicas em uma escola da rede pública de ensino básico

Spohr, Fúlvia da Silva January 2015 (has links)
Este estudo aborda a questão da inserção tecnológica de uma escola da rede pública de ensino básico sob a perspectiva da relação de modulação dessa rede sócio-técnica que inclui a cognição os objetos técnicos e a instituição, como decorrentes da resolução de uma operação problemática que se atualiza. Deste modo foi acompanhado um processo de distribuição de computadores portáteis (netbooks) a uma comunidade escolar da rede de ensino fundamental observando alguns dos efeitos éticos, estéticos e políticos que emergiram do encontro dos sujeitos com a tecnologia. À partir do método cartográfico evidenciamos quais foram os efeitos que se produziram no encontro da comunidade escolar com a tecnologia digital advinda do atravessamento de diferentes politicas públicas que agenciadas constituíram a instauração de um projeto de inserção tecnológica. Assim, observamos que a modulação de uma rede que inclui entre outros atravessamentos, as políticas públicas em educação, a potência de indeterminação de uma tecnologia digital e os sujeitos em uma concepção de cognição concreta e corporificada, ocorre quando, nesse agenciamento são produzidos novos modos de fazer, no qual conhecimento e realidade surgem inseparáveis. No contexto desta pesquisa, essa inseparatividade, ocorre quando se desloca a tecnologia de uma perspectiva instrumental e utilitária para uma posição de ação ética e de autoria. Assim, ao colocar em debate, algumas resoluções as quais os sujeitos foram encontrando a partir de sua experiência enatuada e situada, observamos o favorecimento de práticas no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, as quais possibilitaram a atribuição de novos sentidos ao fazer docente e discente. Destacamos que a ressignificação da realidade permitiu conservar uma política recognitiva e gerar também novos modos de conhecer em uma política da invenção, redefinindo alguns limites dessa rede nos planos individuais, técnicos e institucionais. / This study approaches the technology insertion issue in a public school of basic education from the perspective of the modulation relation of this socio-technical network that includes cognition, technical objects and the institution, as a result of a resolution of a problematic transaction that it updates. Therefore, the distribution process of portable computers (netbooks) to a school community in an elementary school was accompanied, observing some of the ethical, aesthetic and politicians effects which emerged from the meeting of the individuals with technology. From the cartographic method we evidenced which were the effects that took place at the meeting of the school community with the digital technology originated from the implications of different public policies that agencied constituted the establishment of the insertion of a technological project. Thus, we observed that modulation of a network that includes among other implications, the public policies on education, the power of indeterminacy of a digital technology and the individuals in a concrete and embodied cognition conception, occurs when, in this agency are produced new ways of making, in which knowledge and reality appear inseparable. In the context of this research, this inseparability, occurs when technology is moved from an instrumental and utilitarian perspective to a position of ethical action and authoring. So, to put in debate, some resolutions which the individuals were finding from their embodied and located experience, we noted the encouraging of teaching and learning practices, which allowed the allocation of new senses to the making process of faculty and students. We emphasize that resignification of reality, allowed to retain a recognitive policy and also generate new ways of knowing in a politics of invention, redefining some limits of this network on individual, technical and institutional plans.
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Analyse énactive de l'activité en trail et ultra-trail : une approche multi-sourcing / Enactive analysis of activity in trail and ultra-trail running : a multi-sourcing approach

Rochat, Nadège 20 November 2017 (has links)
L’objectif de cette thèse était d’analyser l’activité en trail et ultra-trail en s’inscrivant dans le paradigme de l’énaction (Varela et al., 1993). Un observatoire multi-sourcing composé de discussions de forum, de récits de courses postés sur les blogs, d’entretiens énactifs et de données en troisième personne caractérisant les accélérations verticales du traileur et de son système de portage a été construit pour mener nos analyses. Les résultats des analyses des discussions de forums ont montré que les traileurs partagent des préoccupations relatives à l’entraînement et la santé. Les résultats des analyses des récits de blogs et des entretiens énactifs ont caractérisé l’activité des traileurs en situation de course, en reportant (a) des gestalts phénoménologiques dont l’agencement temporel a identifié des profils d’activité, (b) des états de vitalité dont la répartition et l’organisation temporelle différaient chez les finisheurs et les abandonneurs et (c) sept étapes-clés impliquées dans les abandons. Les résultats des analyses de l’usage du matériel ont montré que les sensations de ballotement du système de portage reportées par les traileurs étaient confirmées par les données comportementales. Pris dans leur ensemble, ces résultats suggèrent que l’activité des traileurs peut être caractérisée avec différentes sources de données, rendant compte des expériences signifiantes multiples énactés en situation. Ils fournissent des implications pratiques pour le champ de la psychologie du sport et transformatives pour les entreprises souhaitant intégrer les utilisateurs dans leur processus de conception. / Rooted in the enaction paradigm (Varela et al., 1993), the aim of this thesis was to analyse the activity in trail and ultra-trail running. A multi-sourcing observatory was constructed to conduct our analyses. It was composed of forum discussions posted on the community website of the Raidlight brand, races narratives posted on blogs, enactive interviews and third-person data characterising the vertical oscillations of both the runners and their carrying systems. The results of the discussion forums showed that trail runners share common concerns regarding health and training issues. The results of the blog narratives and enactive interviews analyses characterised trail runners’ activity in race situation, by reporting (a) phenomenological gestalts, which temporal layout identified activity profiles, (b) vitality states, which repartition and temporal organisation differed in finishers and withdrawers and (c) seven key-stages involved in withdrawals. The results of analyses of the use of equipment showed that the sensations of bouncing reported by runners were confirmed by the behavioural data. Taken together, these results suggested that trail runners’ activity can be characterised by different data sources, reporting the various meaningful experiences that trail runners enact in situation. They provide practical and transformative implications for the proposition of an intervention model in sport psychology as well as a proposition of a multi-sourcing conception model for companies, which seek to integrate users in their conception processes.
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Körper und Klänge in Bewegung: Körperliche Dimensionen von Musik zwischen Embodiment und Enaction

Schroedter, Stephanie 16 August 2022 (has links)
No description available.
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Expérience de visite et construction des connaissances : le cas des musées de sciences et des centres de culture scientifique / The experience of the visit and construction of knowledge : the case of science museums and scientific cultural centers

Schmitt, Daniel 05 December 2012 (has links)
Pouvons-nous saisir, comprendre et décrire l’expérience de visite dans un musée ? Cette étude aborde l’expérience des visiteurs à partir d’une perspective énactive comme ce qui fait sens du point de vue du visiteur dans le cours de sa visite. Les principaux résultats portent sur une méthode d’investigation originale dans le champ muséal qui autorise un nouveau point de vue sur l’expérience des visiteurs dans les musées. Nous montrons que l’analyse du cours d’expérience réalisée à partir d’un entretien en re-situ subjectif permet de décrire et de comprendre les unités élémentaires de l’expérience des visiteurs, ainsi que l’expérience globale de visite avec précision, finesse et profondeur. Nous mettons en évidence les actions et les cheminements cognitifs des visiteurs qui concourent à la construction de leurs connaissances et nous proposons des cours d’expérience typiques aux visites de musées. / Can we grasp, understand and describe the experience of museum visitors? This study focuses on the visitor experience from an enactive perspective, i.e., that which makes sense from the point of view of visitors during their visit. The main results concern the method of investigation, which is innovative in the field of museum studies and provides a new perspective on the experience of visitors in museums. The thesis shows that an analysis of the visitor’s “course of experience” carried out by means of a subjective re situ interview allows us to describe and understand the basic units of the visitors’ experiences as well as the overall experience of the visit with precision, finesse, and depth. The actions and cognitive paths of visitors, which contribute to the construction of the knowledge, are also highlighted and we offer standard courses of experience during museum visits, which repeatedly contribute to the construction of knowledge.
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Experiência mediada por dispositivos e interfaces digitais: contribuições da corporificação e da enação para o design de interação / Experience mediated by digital devices and interfaces:the contributions of the embodiment and of the enaction for interaction design

Pacheco, Beatriz de Almeida 13 May 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:12:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Beatriz de Almeida Pacheco.pdf: 5804317 bytes, checksum: 1c55c0fe5bb047261312a4e986f7cbde (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-13 / This research discusses the issue of the experiences offered by digital devices from its interfaces and interactions in the context of ICTs, and aims to answer the following question: is it possible to create a set of heuristics based on externalist theories of philosophy of mind (Embodiment and Enaction) that contributes to the Interaction Design area development. As a hypothesis, I work toward a positive answer to the presented question, whereas from these interactions each person sets a differentiated cognitive and learning relationship, which makes his cognitive channels more complex. With the daily unique products launch and complex behavior, due to the technology advancement, people have to deal with new codes, which need some kind of learning. Considering a world increasingly represented by images, the visibility provided by machines becomes extremely important to construct reality, especially in Western cities and developed regions. This is replaced by a value of reality, since it is less susceptible to the subjectivity of the human eye. It points to the important connections between the individual experiences and their links to his repertoire acquired throughout life as a key to the process of knowledge construction. Finally it indicates that digital devices, while providing multichannel and multisensory interaction ends up favoring the establishment of such relations. Thus, part of the concept of experience (Varela and Maturana -­‐ the new look at our bodies able to see both physical structures and lived experiential structures) transits through its unique characteristics of, individuality and cognitive plurality. Secondly discusses the interaction between men and computers from their development paradigms: presents the area development in the facer of its history and introduces the art state of the projected area, instinctively or intentionally, experiences create knowledge. It deals, afterwards, with the communication and the communicative processes mediated by digital devices, discusses the design of their interfaces and the interactive possibilities in the light of the Interaction Design (Preece et al), Human Machine Interaction (Benyon) and Design of Experiment (Shedroff) -­‐ which increasingly consider the user as the center of the design process and the construction. Finally discusses the Experience as a contemporary form of learning that moves between the singular universal knowledge and the experimentation / A presente pesquisa discute a questão das experiências proporcionadas pelos dispositivos digitais a partir de suas interfaces e interações, no âmbito das TICs, e visa responder à seguinte questão: é possível criar um conjunto de heurísticas baseado nas teorias externalistas da filosofia da mente (Mente Incorporada e Enação) que contribua para o desenvolvimento da área de Design de Interação. Como hipótese, trabalho na direção de uma resposta positiva à pergunta apresentada, pois cada indivíduo estabelece, a partir de tais interações, uma relação cognitiva e de aprendizado diferenciada, que torna complexos seus canais cognitivos. Com o lançamento diário de produtos originais e de comportamento complexo, fruto do avanço da tecnologia, as pessoas tem que lidar com novos códigos, o que torna necessário algum tipo de aprendizado. Considerando um mundo cada vez mais representado por imagens, a visibilidade propiciada pelas máquinas adquire extrema importância na construção do real, sobretudo nas metrópoles ocidentais e regiões desenvolvidas. Esta passa a ter um valor de realidade, pois está menos sujeita à subjetividade do olhar humano. Aponta para a importância da ligação entre as experiências vividas pelo indivíduo e as ligações dessas com o repertório por ele adquirido ao longo da vida como elemento fundamental para o processo de construção do conhecimento. Finalmente indica que dispositivos digitais, ao propiciarem interações multicanais e multissensoriais acabam por favorecer o estabelecimento de tais relações. Dessa forma, parte do conceito de experiência (Varela e Maturana novo olhar sobre nossos corpos capaz de vê-­‐los tanto como estruturas físicas quanto como estruturas experienciais vividas) a partir de um levantamento histórico e transita por suas características de singularidade, individualidade e pluralidade cognitiva. Num segundo momento discute a Interação entre homens e computadores a partir de seus paradigmas de desenvolvimento: apresenta o desenvolvimento da área a partir de sua história e apresenta o estado da arte da área que projeta, instintiva ou intencionalmente, as experiências geradoras de conhecimento. Trata, posteriormente, da comunicação e processos comunicativos mediados por dispositivos digitais, discute o projeto de suas interfaces e possibilidades interativas à luz do Design de Interação (Preece et al), da Interação Humano Máquina (Benyon) e do Design de Experiência (Shedroff) que cada vez mais consideram o usuário como centro do processo de design e construção. Por fim discute a Experiência como forma contemporânea de aprendizado que transita entre o conhecimento universal e a experimentação singular.
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The Embodied Imagination: British Romantic Cognitive Science

Robertson, Lisa Ann Unknown Date
No description available.
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O oficinar como possibilidade de exercício da cognição enativa

Lopes, Graziela Pereira January 2009 (has links)
O uso de substâncias químicas tem sido relatado em diferentes culturas e períodos históricos; entretanto os tipos de substâncias utilizadas, o contexto social, as práticas de consumo e o que é considerado excesso, bem como as práticas de seu controle e os modos de intervenção, apresentam especificidades. Deparamo-nos hoje com o fato de que o uso considerado abusivo pode ser caracterizado como doença (dependência). Para os sujeitos nessa condição de existência, existe toda uma estrutura de poderes (Ministério da Saúde e Ministério Público) e saberes (médico, jurídico, psicológico, religioso, etc.) propondo instituições e modelos de tratamento. Através da inserção em uma dessas instituições de tratamento para dependentes químicos e da análise dos modos de subjetivação e das políticas cognitivas, propomos uma pesquisa-intervenção, com a finalidade de possibilitar o exercício da cognição enativa/inventiva. Adotar como perspectiva a cognição enativa/inventiva implica estabelecer outra relação de conhecimento, baseada na produção de si próprio (autopoiese) e daquilo que tomamos por realidade em distintas redes de conversação. Dessa forma, as oficinas de máscaras surgem como uma proposta de pesquisa-intervenção que tem como objetivo mapear e acompanhar os movimentos cognitivos emergentes nas mesmas, inseridas no marco institucional de um serviço para dependentes de substâncias químicas. Tomamos como foco de estudo os modos pelos quais os usuários desse serviço de saúde que participam da oficina (intervenção) de produção de máscaras colocam questões e compartilham emoções - por eles consideradas pertinentes - em relação às experiências pessoal, institucional e com as tecnologias. Buscamos ainda, avaliar os efeitos da emergência de uma política de cognição enativa em um contexto terapêutico predominantemente recognitivo. Para a análise das oficinas, tomamos o conceito de cognição enativa como uma ferramenta metodológica que nos potencialize distinguir momentos em uma rede de produção-conversação nos quais exista um linguajar que vitalize coordenações de ações até então inusitadas na história desse coletivo e um emocionar no qual a experiência do outro possa ser aceita como legítima. / The use of chemical substances has been reported in different cultures and historical periods. However, the types of substances used, the social context, the consumption practices and what is considered excessive, as well as control practices and means of intervention present specificities. Nowadays, we face the fact that the use considered abusive may be characterized as a disease (dependence). There is a structure of powers (Health Ministry and Public Ministry) and knowledge (medical, legal, psychological, religious, etc.) proposing institutions and treatment models concerning subjects who live under such conditions. Through the insertion in one of such treatment institutions for chemical dependents and through the analysis of the subjectivation forms and of the cognitive policies, we propose an interventionresearch, aiming to enable the assignment of the inventive/enactive cognition. Adopting the inventive/enactive cognition as a perspective implies to establish another knowledge relation based on the production of oneself (autopoiesis) and on what we take as reality in distinct conversation networks. Thus, the mask workshops rise as a proposal of intervention-research that have as their aim to map and follow the cognitive movements emerging from them, inserted on the institutional placement of a service for chemical substance dependents. Our study focuses on the means by which the users of this health service that take part on the mask production workshop (intervention) lay questions and share emotions - considered relevant by them - concerning personal and institutional experiences, as well as the experiences regarding technologies. Yet, we pursue to evaluate the effects of the emergency of enactive cognition policies in a predominantly recognitive therapeutic context. Regarding the analysis of the workshops, we take the concept of enactive cognition as a methodological tool that potentializes the distinction of moments in a productionconversation network in which there is an expression through the language that vitalizes unusual coordination of actions in the history of this group and an emotional stimulation in which the experience of the other ones may be accepted as legitimate.
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Co-Speech Gesture in Communication and Cognition

Cuffari, Elena Clare 12 1900 (has links)
xv, 256 p. : ill. / This dissertation stages a reciprocal critique between traditional and marginal philosophical approaches to language on the one hand and interdisciplinary studies of speech-accompanying hand gestures on the other. Gesturing with the hands while speaking is a ubiquitous, cross-cultural human practice. Yet this practice is complex, varied, conventional, nonconventional, and above all under-theorized. In light of the theoretical and empirical treatments of language and gesture that I engage in, I argue that the hand gestures that spontaneously accompany speech are a part of language; more specifically, they are enactments of linguistic meaning. They are simultaneously (acts of) cognition and communication. Human communication and cognition are what they are in part because of this practice of gesturing. This argument has profound implications for philosophy, for gesture studies, and for interdisciplinary work to come. As further, strong proof of the pervasively embodied way that humans make meaning in language, reflection on gestural phenomena calls for a complete re-orientation in traditional analytic philosophy of language. Yet philosophical awareness of intersubjectivity and normativity as conditions of meaning achievement is well-deployed in elaborating and refining the minimal theoretical apparatus of present-day gesture studies. Triangulating between the most social, communicative philosophies of meaning and the most nuanced, reflective treatments of co-speech hand gesture, I articulate a new construal of language as embodied, world-embedded, intersubjectively normative, dynamic, multi-modal enacting of appropriative disclosure. Spontaneous co-speech gestures, while being indeed spontaneous, are nonetheless informed in various ways by conventions that they appropriate and deploy. Through this appropriation and deployment speakers enact, rather than represent, meaning, and they do so in various linguistic modalities. Seen thusly, gestures provide philosophers with a unique new perspective on the paradoxical determined-yet-free nature of all human meaning. / Committee in charge: Mark Johnson, Chairperson; Ted Toadvine, Member; Naomi Zack, Member; Eric Pederson, Outside Member

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