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How the Body Shapes the Mind
Shaun Gallagher
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Description for How the Body Shapes the Mind
Paperback. Offers an examination of the role played by the body in perception and in the development and practice of thinking. This book uses the concepts of body image and body schema to address a range of philosophical questions about cognition, drawing on work in developmental psychology, brain research, and studies of unusual pathologies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these disciplines that the contribution of embodiment to cognition is inescapable. Because this insight has been developed across a variety of disciplines, however, there is still a need to develop a common vocabulary that is capable of integrating discussions of brain mechanisms in neuroscience, behavioural expressions in psychology, design concerns in artificial intelligence and robotics, and debates about embodied experience in the phenomenology and philosophy ... Read more
How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these disciplines that the contribution of embodiment to cognition is inescapable. Because this insight has been developed across a variety of disciplines, however, there is still a need to develop a common vocabulary that is capable of integrating discussions of brain mechanisms in neuroscience, behavioural expressions in psychology, design concerns in artificial intelligence and robotics, and debates about embodied experience in the phenomenology and philosophy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199204168
SKU
V9780199204168
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Reviews for How the Body Shapes the Mind
...this book is a massive interdisciplinary achievement and a major contribution to a better understanding of the role of embodiment in consciousness and cognition ... His book combines an impressive knowledge of contemporary research in the cognitive and neurocognitive sciences with a keen sense of the deep and important philosophical issues this research raises. It deserves to be read by ... Read more