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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828582603321

Autore

Rowlands Mark

Titolo

The body in mind : understanding cognitive processes / / Mark Rowlands

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999

ISBN

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in philosophy

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Mind and body

Cognition

Externalism (Philosophy of mind)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.