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Action, Perception and the Brain: Adaptation and Cephalic Expression (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
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Hardcover. A study of contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. Editor(s): Schulkin, Jay. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Theories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize objects as common, as that which can also be seen in much the same way by others? Such constitution of intersubjectively accessible objects is bound up with our flexible and sophisticated capacities for social cognition understanding others and their desires, intentions, emotions, and moods which are crucial to the way human beings live. This book is about contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, ... Read more
Theories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize objects as common, as that which can also be seen in much the same way by others? Such constitution of intersubjectively accessible objects is bound up with our flexible and sophisticated capacities for social cognition understanding others and their desires, intentions, emotions, and moods which are crucial to the way human beings live. This book is about contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230282582
SKU
V9780230282582
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HENRY BRIGHTON Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany MERLIN DONALD Department of Psychology, Queens University, Canada ROBIN I.M.DUNBAR Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford University, UK SHAUN GALLAGHER Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, USA GERD GIGERENZER Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany ARTHUR M.GLENBERG Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, USA PATRICK HEELAN Department of Philosophy, Georgetown ... Read more
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