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THE BODY IN MIND
UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE PROCESSES |
| By: |
Mark Rowlands, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
052165274X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521652742 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 November, 1999 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Pages: |
284 |
| Description: |
This book offers a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. |
| Synopsis: |
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. It is not simply an internal process of information processing; equally significantly, it is an external process of information processing. This innovative book provides a foundation for an unorthodox but increasingly popular view of the nature of cognition. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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