ࡱ> 463%` bjbj"x"x 4@@  b$h%%%.%%%% `Ę/ %20b% %%>,% $- b$ The Performance of Thinking Donald J. Morse Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Webster University This paper examines the act of thinking from a somaesthetic perspective. That is to say, the paper considers what we do with our bodies when we think. The paper finds that our bodies play an essential role in thinking in that the bodys physical manipulation of objects is required for the successful completion of thought. Drawing on Deweys somaesthetic insights in Essays in Experimental Logic, I argue that the performance of thought in artistic creation, everyday cognition, and even scientific inquiry reveals that thinking is a process that issues in the bodys reorganization of material. To think without external manipulation is not really to think; it is to withdraw, to contract, to halt the process of thinking in mid-stream. In genuine thinking, there is some physical outcome that occurs, and more particularly an attempted change in the institutions and cultural conditions around one. Genuine thought grows out of cultural problems, as Dewey reminds us, and seeks to rectify them. I describe what this process of responding to ones culture looks like (namely, the mutual adaptation of different areas of cultural to one another, for example, the religious and the scientific, the economic and the ethical, the aesthetic and the technological, and the individual and the social). I also discuss the question of whether thinkers today are ready to accept this view of thought as external transformation. I identify several obstacles to their doing sothe comfort enjoyed by a contemplative leisure class; dualism; love of abstractions; but above all the lack of attunement of thinkers to their bodies. Ironically, most thinkers do not sufficiently reflect upon what they do when they think. By teaching us to perceive the essential role of our bodies in the performance of thinking, somaesthetics overcomes a major obstacle to the achievement of genuine thought today. -.pq  hDhH} hD6 hhDhD hMhD .opqgdDdgdD d`gdD$a$gdD 21h:pld/ =!"#$% @`@ DNormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH DA@D Default Paragraph FontRi@R  Table Normal4 l4a (k@(No List.opq@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@00.oZ00Z00Z00Z00Z00 00  8@0(  B S  ?uvԃwx 1PP[cZbmm9*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagsplace=*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceName T%x)(K9$ &[kf)E2YLQ-Kx< EdEJhmt'v(,=p{g8@N^rlApbEbIM # Q _V lk X  4 Z  X e  R ) u. K |Q k k / QA FT &`%s7x|$;U:Y|[dJ{<C=L 2NeE? "7@"]"I)#+#H#Ne#$_4$V$JX$i$C%!&&&A+& s&{'?({())**)+9)-:))m)u~)* **(*U*/]*[r*=*z +v+ , ,)>,B,id,--I-i-./. a.Dj.s//,/7/V/Wj/0000Vx0^1Vi1~s122$333 Q3\3{3&I4Q45t!5U751I5 T5t5 |5A6A6R6%76777u7"8Q8u8{89U9!90/9J9c9 ::N:<:wC:g:v:k;';[+;=;L;U;&<J3<L<e<l<=K=@h=DJ>}> ?j?|?4?5?F?GW?@$@t@>9AjTAUA`A8kAFAB CCfCpCDO.D5DF9DMD PDE'WE'ZEA$FM$F$FG;)G%0,ְճٱy//6?Ca!?9Ҹ,eK`dSx,cocLsV @~U\Sb&UmbOaZ;)PlCD]W$lnY}:&:GQVxVIP fZoyDto(1 J7o{2OvU'$9:DPNp3Oa_&1I~m"< #!>t*96@ :-f5l=)f6p~ 3M iR_z!>gz - ?N\AzbQ]XgbxxjN!&Wavs?>89<AeoF0aq4)<bbO"Jr} .7Nmbk$p.Am\I~Fhs$O [paGpNq|e4uGZ|]Rjyt%+7;T#(n001*CO ~!E)Zh_z'`EV\C]SqLTMMvg^K*-9<tg^aw!D>p!<>ds!:`$4p8(VlWuami47dbEcVt H6_ !X#3gOgzlu\/<nQ*X6Yk%B<ADJQ4F5i.tKOXj%aCY_O 9SW{LLMO/VWZf[ .0<aLebk 7kwN ?H]_+p3q6=  1wbrU:%=^_/$D&S)k\frj#/GMZL` B]5<iZd qIZk   s 8{PYG0; #}ZEFTpyuA{NXYZ< w "F;L=~KKiU3fg %58EKKrMM`o"U);]k\e5?Gwu%Q^S&&*Y[r#|O%-$pYaioL~n 1=UWY_@M/P@UnknownGz Times New Roman5Symbol3& z Arial"qhjfʆ:Ȇ**!r4d2qKX)?x2The Performance of ThinkingKim & Don MorseblabadieOh+'0 $0 P \ h tThe Performance of ThinkingKim & Don MorseNormal blabadie25Microsoft Office Word@xA@l@@4o/*՜.+,0 hp|   ' The Performance of Thinking Title  !"$%&'()*,-./0125Root Entry FP/7Data  1TableWordDocument4SummaryInformation(#DocumentSummaryInformation8+CompObjq  FMicrosoft Office Word Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q