MASSIMILIANO CAPPUCCIO Post-doctoral researcher affiliated with the Neurophilosophy Lab of the State University of Milan, ItalyHUBERT L. DREYFUS Professor of Philosophy atUniversity of California, Berkeley, USASHAUN GALLAGHER holds the Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA. He has secondary appointments the University of Hertfordshire, UK, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Central Florida, USA EUGENE T. GENDLIN American philosopher and psychologist, taught philosophy at the University of Chicago for many yearsDANIEL D. HUTTO Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UKKLAUS MAINZER Professor of the Philosophy of Science, Director of the Carl von Linde-Akademie at the Technische Universität Munich, GermanyJOSEPH MARGOLIS Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, USA DANIEL A. SCHMICKING Research Associate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, GermanyMICHAEL SCHMITZ Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Germany MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE Courtesy Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USARICHARD SHUSTERMAN Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, USA SUSAN A. J. STUART Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UKMICHAEL WHEELER Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, UK

• Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Z.Radman The Mystery of the Background qua Background; H.L.Dreyfus PART I: ECHOING SEARLE'S AND DREYFUS' VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Ground-Level Intelligence:Action-Oriented Representation and the Dynamics of the Background; M.Cappuccio & M.Wheeler Exposing the Background: Deep and Local; D.D.Hutto The Background as Intentional, Conscious, and Nonconceptual; M.Schmitz Social Cognition, the Chinese Room, and the Robot Replies; S.Gallagher Contesting John's Searle' Social Ontology: Institutions and Background; J.Margolis Music and the Background; D.Schmicking PART II: EXTENDED VIEWS ON THE BACKGROUND Implicit Precision; E.T.Gendlin Enkinaesthesia: The Essential Sensuous Background for Co-Agency; S.A.J.Stuart Steps Entailed in Foregrounding the Background: Taking the Challenge of Languaging Experience Seriously; M.Sheets-Johnstone The Body as Background: Pragmatism and Somasthetics; R.Shusterman The Background: A Tool of Potentiality; Z.Radman Embodied Technology as Implicit Knowledge of Modern Civilization; K.Mainzer Index