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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Cognition | |
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Standard Cognitive Science | |
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Introduction | |
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Newell and Simon's General Problem Solver | |
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Descriptive Frameworks | |
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Back to General Problem Solver | |
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Sternberg's Analysis of Memory Scanning | |
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The Computational Vision Program | |
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The Solipsistic View | |
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Summary | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Challenging Standard Cognitive Science | |
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Introduction | |
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Gibson's Ecological Theory of Perception | |
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Structure in Light | |
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The Brain's Role in Vision | |
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Hatfield's Noncognitive Computationalism | |
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The Connectionist Challenge | |
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Summary | |
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Conceptions of Embodiment | |
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Introduction | |
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Varela, Thompson, and Rosch: World Building | |
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Thelen: Representation Lite | |
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Clark: Thinking with the Body | |
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Summary | |
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Embodied Cognition: The Conceptualization Hypothesis | |
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Conceptualization | |
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Linguistic Determinism | |
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The Linguistic Determination of Time Conceptions | |
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Sex With Syntax | |
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Concepts and Conceptions | |
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Testing Hypotheses | |
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The Embodiment of Color | |
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Embodiment and Metaphor | |
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Putting Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptualization Thesis to the Test | |
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Second-Generation Cognitive Science | |
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The Symbol Grounding Problem | |
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The Indexical Hypothesis | |
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Perceptual Symbols | |
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Affordances | |
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Meshing | |
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Experimental Evidence for the Indexical Hypothesis: The Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect | |
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Assessing the Indexical Hypothesis | |
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Meaningfulness in Amodal Representation | |
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Sensibility Judgments | |
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Standard Cognitive Science and the Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect | |
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The Body in the Brain | |
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Summary | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Embodied Cognition: The Replacement Hypothesis | |
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Replacement | |
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Dynamical Systems | |
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Van Gelder's Dynamical Hypothesis | |
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Explaining Watt's Centrifugal Governor | |
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The Dynamics of Cognition | |
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Categorical Perception from a Dynamical Perspective | |
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Do Dynamical Explanations Explain? | |
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Replacement and Robotics | |
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The Case for Representational Skepticism | |
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Are There Representations in the Centrifugal Governor? | |
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The Argument for Representational Skepticism | |
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The "They're Not Representations!" Argument against Representations | |
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Summary | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Embodied Cognition: The Constitution Hypothesis | |
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Constitution | |
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A Quick Refutation of Constitution? The Argument from Envatment | |
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Sensorimotor Theories of Perceptual Experience | |
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Constituents and Causes | |
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More Than Just a Gesture? | |
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Coupling and Constitution | |
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Extending Cognition Further | |
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The Coupling-Constitution Fallacy | |
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A Parity Argument for Constitution | |
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Against Parity-Meeting The Marks of the Cognitive | |
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Mark I: Intrinsic Content | |
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Mark II: Causal Processes | |
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Extended v. Embedded Cognition | |
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Whose Action is it Anyway? | |
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Summary | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Concluding Thoughts | |
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Back to the Decision Tree | |
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Conceptualization and Standard Cognitive Science | |
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Replacement and Standard Cognitive Science | |
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Constitution and Standard Cognitive Science | |
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The Final(?) Score | |
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Glossary | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |