The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction: A Pragmatist Approach to Human Nature
  • 1. Looking for a Pragmatist Anthropology: Issues and Methods at Stake
  • 2. The State of the Art
  • 3. Why the Pragmatists?
  • 4. What Human Nature?
  • 5. Cultural Naturalism, Loop-Effects, and Designless Emergentism
• Chapter 2 Looking at Human Sensibility through a Pragmatist Lens
  • 1. In Search of a Rounded Portrait
  • 2. Framing Cognition and Sensory Perception
  • 3. Qualitative Experience beyond the Subjective/Objective Divide
  • 4. Sensibility: A Provisional Definition
  • 5. More Than Action and Perception
  • 6. A Culturally Naturalistic View of Sensibility, or the Loop of Qualitative and Reflective Experience
• Chapter 3 Pragmatist Contributions to a Theory of Emotions
  • 1. Contextualizing Emotions within Sensibility
  • 2. James’s Contribution, or How Emotions Are Embodied
  • 3. Dewey’s Integrations and Amendments, or Emotions as Behavior-Orienting Tools
  • 4. Mead’s Further Developments, or Emotions as Social Functions
  • 5. At the Intersection between Habits, Sensibility, and Emotions: Some (Provisional) Conclusions and Beyond
• Chapter 4 Humans Are Bundles of Habits
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Introducing Habits with Peirce and James
  • 3. A Deweyan Privilege
  • 4. Giving Habits an Ecological Framework
  • 5. A Historical Analysis: A Comparison with Conwy Lloyd Morgan
  • 6. A Naturally Social Environment as the Ecological Framework of Human Habits
  • 7. How Does Habituation Occur?
  • 8. About the Place of Mind in Habits
  • 9. Why Are Habits Pervasive within the Human Form of Life?
  • 10. Refining a Deweyan Conception of Habits through Bourdieu’s Account of Habitus (I): Convergences
  • 11. Refining a Deweyan Conception of Habits through Bourdieu’s Account of Habitus (II): Divergences
  • 12. Habits and Change
  • 13. Conclusion
• Chapter 5 Human Experience as Enlanguaged Experience
  • 1. Enlanguaged Experience: A General View
  • 2. Some Promising Convergences
  • 3. Dewey on the Emergence of the Mind out of Language and Human Association
  • 4. Dewey on the Emergence of Meanings out of Feelings and Previous Forms of Sensibility
  • 5. Dewey on the Mental as a Peculiarly Human Affair
  • 6. Frank Lorimer on the Growth of Intelligence Prior to Verbal Activity
  • 7. NonLinguistic Behaviors: The Neglected Linguistic Environment as a Constitutive Factor in Behavior
• Chapter 6 Exploring the Continuity between Sensibility and Language
  • 1. On Continuity and What It Means
  • 2. The Aesthetic-Affective Tissue of Speech and the Birth of Nomination
  • 3. James against the Language of Names: A Digression
  • 4. Mead on the Genesis of Verbal Gestures out of Emotional Conversations
  • 5. Emotive Communication as an Antecedent to Verbal Interaction
  • 6. The Transition to Linguistic Gestures: The Affective Dimension of Self-Reflectivity
  • 7. Feedback Effects of Language on Sensibility?
  • 8. Lorimer on the Emergence of Symbolic Intelligence: Words, Syntax, and Logical Structures
  • 9. Mead’s Theory of Reference
  • 10. Conclusion
• Conclusion A Pragmatic/Pragmatist Balance
• Notes
• References
• Index