The Body in Mind
The Body in Mind
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.
- Systematic and wide-ranging
- Proposes and defends an unorthodox but increasingly popular view
- Of interest to philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: 'a picture held us captive'
- Part I. Psychotechtonics:
- 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
- Part 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
- References
- Index.
