How the Body Shapes the Mind

Name: How the Body Shapes the Mind
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ISBN: 9780199204168

ISBN-10: 0199204160

ISBN-13: 9780199204168

Edition: 2006

Authors: Shaun Gallagher

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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…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Shaun Gallagher is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Central Florida and coeditor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.



List of Figures


List of Tables


Introduction



Scientific and Phenomenological Investigations of Embodiment



The Terms of Embodiment



The Case of the Missing Schema



The Earliest Senses of Self and Others



Pursuing a Phantom



The Body in Gesture



Excursions in Philosophy and Pathology



Prenoetic Constraints on Perception and Action



Neurons and Neonates: Reflections on The Molyneux Problem



Complex Structures and Common Dynamics of Self-Awareness



The Interactive Practice of Mind



Before You Know It


References


Index