Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

by Diego Cosmelli, John Stewart, Giovanna Colombetti, et al.

Book Overview

A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social.

This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Enaction, first articulated by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch in The Embodied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526018
• ISBN13: 9780262526012
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 14.5" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher