Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Minding Ostension -- I Contemporary Resources -- 1 The Philosophy of Action, Perception, and Play -- 2 The Science of Prelinguistic Joint Attention -- II Historical Resources -- 3 Wittgenstein: Ostension Makes Language Public -- 4 Merleau-Ponty: Gestural Meaning and the Living Body -- 5 Augustine: Word Learning by Understanding the Movements of Life -- 6 Aristotle: Natural Movement and the Problem of Shared Understanding -- III Philosophical Investigations -- 7 Phenomenology: Discovering Ostension -- 8 Mind: The Logic of Ostension -- 9 Epistemology: Disambiguating Ostension -- 10 Metaphysics: Movement, Manifestation, and Language -- 11 Conclusion: The Origin of the Human Conversation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.