The body in mind: understanding cognitive processes
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Main Author: Rowlands, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 1999
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-266) and index
"In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. Cognition is not something done exclusively in the head, but fundamentally something done in the world. Drawing on both evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes involved in perception, memory, thought and language use, Rowlands argues that cognition is, in part, a process whereby creatures manipulate and exploit relevant objects in their environment."--Jacket
Introduction : 'A picture held us captive' -- pt. I. Psychotectonics. Introduction to Part I : 'Don't work hard, work smart' -- Environmentalism and what it is not -- Environmentalism and evolution -- Perception -- Memory -- Thought -- Language -- pt. II. Psychosemantics. Introduction to Part II : the need for and the place of a theory of representation -- Two theories of representation -- Environmentalism and teleological semantics
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 270 pages)
ISBN:0511005431
0511033087
0511583265
052165274X
9780511005435
9780511033087
9780511583261
9780521652742

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