The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes

by Mark Rowlands

Book Overview

In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. Cognition is not something done exclusively in the head, but fundamentally something done in the world. Drawing on both evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes involved in perception, memory, thought and language use, Rowlands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521049792
• ISBN13: 9780521049795
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"