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The body in mind : understanding cognitive processes

Title: The body in mind : understanding cognitive processes / Mark Rowlands.
Author: Rowlands, Mark.
Publication: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description

x, 270 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in philosophy

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in philosophy

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-266) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: 'A picture held us captive' -- pt. I. Psychotectonics. 2. Introduction to Part I: 'Don't work hard, work smart'. 3. Environmentalism and what it is not. 4. Environmentalism and evolution. 5. Perception. 6. Memory. 7. Thought. 8. Language -- pt. II. Psychosemantics. 9. Introduction to Part II: the need for and the place of a theory of representation. 10. Two theories of representation. 11. Environmentalism and teleological semantics.

ISBN

052165274X
9780521652742
9780521049795
0521049792

LCCN

98045620

OCLC

ocm39951747
39951747
SCSB-9580087

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Princeton University Library