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UNINA9910828582603321 |
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Autore |
Rowlands Mark |
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Titolo |
The body in mind : understanding cognitive processes / / Mark Rowlands |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-11754-2 |
0-521-04979-2 |
1-280-42070-7 |
0-511-03308-7 |
0-511-17214-1 |
0-511-15019-9 |
0-511-31005-6 |
0-511-58326-5 |
0-511-04831-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy of mind |
Mind and body |
Cognition |
Externalism (Philosophy of mind) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-266) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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