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The body in mind : understanding cognitive processes / Mark Rowlands.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in philosophyPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511583261
  • 0511583265
  • 0511005431
  • 9780511005435
  • 0511033087
  • 9780511033087
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Body in mind.DDC classification:
  • 128/.2 21
LOC classification:
  • BD418.3 .R78 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Review: "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.
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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.

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