Pragmatic Circulations: John Dewey's Philosophy, Movement Practices and Embodied Cognition

The past decade has seen a burgeoning of projects and publications to articulate interdisciplinary perspectives into dance and embodied cognition. Many of these works include experiential perspectives, for which they have generally turned to phenomenology. Pragmatism on the other hand, another philosophy of experience, has been mostly absent from these discussions. We provide a close reading of some of John Dewey's ideas, retrospectively informed by notions such as conceptual metaphors and image schemata, to consider a pragmatic framework for movement and embodied cognition, and some implications for embodied interaction.