This Brief provides an in-depth review of the important points of intersection between cultural psychology and philosophy. The five chapters of the Brief focus on the five overlapping themes in philosophy and cultural psychology. The first chapter discusses the notion of thresholds of sense. The second chapter describes the links between contexts of meaning-making by reviewing the works of John Dewey. Chapter three examines the range and scope of the concept of affectivation. Chapter four reviews the heuristic fertility and psychological roots of Susanne Langer's aesthetic model of minding. The final chapter explored affectation as a neccessary facet of human beings giving life to themselves in multiple dimensions by giving life to signs.The Brief concludes with three commentaries from leading researchers in the area. The chapters show extensive points of intersection between cultural psychology and philosophy on many levels of concern: theory of embodied perception, the variety of semiotic frameworks and their schematization of thresholds of meaning-making, the role of art and theories of imagination both in cultural psychology and in philosophy, and the centrality of feeling in meaning-making.  will be of interest to cognitive and cultural psychologists as well as researchers and upper-graduate students in philosophy and related psychology fields.  weiterlesen