Introductory essay

the mystery of the background qua background

Hubert L. Dreyfus

1-10

Ground-level intelligence

action-oriented representation and the dynamics of the background

Massimiliano Cappuccio, Michael Wheeler

13-36

Exposing the background

deep and local

Daniel Hutto

37-56

The background as intentional, conscious, and nonconceptual

Michael Schmitz

57-82

Social cognition, the chinese room, and the robot replies

Shaun Gallagher

83-97

Contesting John Searle's social ontology

institutions and background

Joseph Margolis

98-115

Music and the background

Daniel Schmicking

116-138

Implicit precision

Eugene T. Gendlin

141-166

Enkinaesthesia

the essential sensuous background for co-agency

Susan J. Stuart

167-186

Steps entailed in foregrounding the background

taking the challenge of languaging experience seriously

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

187-205

The body as background

pragmatism and somaesthetics

Richard Shusterman

206-223

The background

a tool of potentiality

Zdravko Radman

224-242

Embodied technology as implicit background of modern civilization

Klaus Mainzer

243-251