Radical embodied cognitive science /

A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chemero, Anthony, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262258678
0262258676
9780262258081
0262258080
0262013223
9780262013222
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: In praise of Dr. Fodor
  • Acknowledgments
  • Stage setting. Hegel, Behe, Chomsky, Fodor
  • Embodied cognition and radical embodied cognition
  • Representation and dynamics. Theories of representation
  • The dynamical stance
  • Guides to discovery
  • Ecological psychology. Information and direct perception
  • Affordances, etc.
  • Philosophical consequences. Neurophilosophy meets radical embodied cognitive science
  • The metaphysics of radical embodiment
  • Coda.