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Body in Mind : Understanding Cognitive Processes.

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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowlands, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: 'A picture held us captive'; 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; 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; References; Index.