Abstract

BATTAN HORENSTEIN, Ariela. Cognición corporal y movimiento: una fenomenología de la experticia. Tópicos [online]. 2022, n.44, e0006. ISSN 1666-485X.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14409/topicos.2022.44.e0006.

The interest of this work is oriented to a problem scarcely considered by scholars of phenomenology, the expert agency of embodied subjects. A plausible explanation for this lack of attention would be that phenomenologists have concentrated on the agency of normal subjects and sick people, and have been less concerned with the expert performances of dancers and athletes. In this article I will try to complement the preceding phenomenological investigations with descriptions of the bodily agency of trained subjects to offer an integrated view of human action. My hypothesis is that expert agents develop a type of bodily cognition, different from that which occurs in ordinary experience. The bodily cognition involved in expertise is characterized by acting in the field of the possible. In order to provide a description of body cognition in expertise, I review the intentional definition of movement, propose a distinction between reflex, habitual, and mechanical movement, and characterize expert movement. For a better understanding of the phenomenon, I also consider examples and descriptions of performances offered by the true protagonists of expert behavior in competitive scenarios.

Keywords : expertise; phenomenology of the body; cognition; movement; intentionality.

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