The body in mind : understanding cognitive processes / / Mark Rowlands [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Rowlands Mark
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| Titolo: |
The body in mind : understanding cognitive processes / / Mark Rowlands [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 128/.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy of mind |
| Mind and body | |
| Cognition | |
| Externalism (Philosophy of mind) | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The body in mind |
| 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 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778867003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Cambridge studies in philosophy.