Sure, you needed a body to generate perceptual input, but, beyond that, you would be hard pressed to find any serious treatment of the role of the body in meaning, understanding, and reasoning. But, surprise, now they do! It’s a bloomin’ miracle! What I mean by this is that, judging from the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, and theory of knowledge discussions in Anglo-American philosophy starting in the 1960’s and continuing even to the present day, it was almost as if humans, or any other rational creatures, didn’t appear to need a body in order to think and reason. I have sometimes joked with my philosophy of mind and cognitive science students that when I was a young lad in graduate school, people didn’t have bodies.
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