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The 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowlands, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.