Origins of Mind
Liz Stillwaggon . Ed(S): Swan
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Description for Origins of Mind
paperback. This volume gathers together a sampling of contemporary thinking on when, why, and how mindedness evolved in the natural world from researchers working in the biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. Editor(s): Swan, Liz Stillwaggon. Series: Biosemiotics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 24 black & white tables, 7 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JHM; JMM; PSA; UGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 658.
The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in ... Read more
The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Biosemiotics
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400795051
SKU
V9789400795051
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Reviews for Origins of Mind
From the reviews: “The chapters provide one of the best explorations of mind-as-process in an age where only empirical phenomena exist, i.e., where there are no extra-empirical things (naturalism). This wide-ranging exploration of an increasingly influential approach to understanding the meaning of ‘mind’ will interest philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” ... Read more