What to call them
A consistent problem in this school is that any label in any human language is dualistic: it "includes" those who use or accept that label, "excludes" others, and becomes simply another dualism imposed by society upon bodies - describing actions out of context of the situations in which they can arise.
The individual philosophers' views regarding body and action axioms are quite complex and difficult to summarize, in part because many are embodied in specialized instructions, or because they deliberately exploit variance in language, reject prose or academe, or deny the natural language dictionary as a foundation ontology. Not all of these theorists accept the concepts of "model", "notation", "decision", "philosophy", "philosopher" or (following Wittgenstein) "action" itself. Cooperation amongst these theorists is generally confined to those seeking a reasonable method or an "algebra of doing", a study most identified with Charles Ortiz and Judea Pearl.
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Others focus on an refutation of falsifiability and of Number, in defiance of various academic and professional boundaries and conventions, as part of a general critique of dominator culture and its categories, e.g. that of John Zerzan, a major figure in the anti-globalization movement.
One influence of this "social constructivism" on the philosophy of mathematics has been to spark some closer investigation into the Erdös Number which tracks the collaborations of mathematicians writing papers.
Like the questions Wittgenstein raised with Russell and with Turing, some of which Turing pursued into biology of neuron expression itself, "the body questions" have also had some impact on the philosophy of mathematics, through semantics of cognition and counting by George Lakoff - originator of a cognitive science of mathematics, and Brian Rotman, author of "Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero and Ad Infinitum", "The Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In", "Circa 2,000" and "The Technology of Mathematical Persuasion".
Body politics - the activists
The political science identified with body philosophy is that of direct action and bodily commitment, and community grown based on shared risk of bodily harm, as practiced in the peace movement, e.g. the direct interposition of activists' bodies between warring parties. Some of these characterize all morals not firmly grounded in bodies as profound evil:
"Jesus was murdered by people who were motivated by a contagious and pandemic emotional illness which had infected them. This sickness has ravaged the human race for the past 5,000 years. It is the cause of patriarchy, rape, hatred and murder of gays and lesbians, greed, loss of contact with, and destruction of, the environment, cruelty to animals, lust for power, Fascism, war, and genocide." - Mark S. Bilk
Other activists, most notably Carol Moore, are less judgemental. She and her followers characterize Gandhi as "an intuitive systems theorist" and the process of satyagraha as an example of active defiance of Number and its implicit violence.
Certain feminist factions of the Green Movement, most notably those inspired by Jane Jacobs and Marilyn Waring, exploit either or both of these views to advocate bioregional democracy - which assigns ecoregions a status as bodies or actors, which they lack in the political science of a dominator culture. Or, some say, a patriarchy.
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