Action, Perception and the Brain: Adaptation and Cephalic Expression (2012) (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science)

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Synopsis
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, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. This emphasis on embodiment and embeddedness is a change from traditional theories, which focused on isolated, representational, and conceptual cognition. In the new perspectives contained in our book, such 'pure' cognition is thought to be under-girded and interpenetrated by embodied and embedded processes.
Copyright:
2012

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780230360792
Related ISBNs:
9780230282582
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
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Copyrighted By:
Jay Schulkin
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Health, Mind and Body, Psychology, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
J. Schulkin

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