Embodied conventions. Some comments on their social dimension and intentionality

Abstract

In these brief comments on Bruno Celano's Pre-conventions. A Fragment of the Background, I propose further thoughts on what, following Celano's analysis, I call embodied conventions. I begin with a number of remarks on Celano's philosophical method. Then, I claim, first, that the social dimension of conventionality remains obscure in his account of embodied conventions. Second, that his account of pre-conventions (embodied conventions that are in the Background) is still imprecise due to the ambiguity of the notion of the Background.