The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind

by Giovanna Colombetti

Book Overview

A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.

In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science--the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She argues that enactivism entails...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262533766
• ISBN13: 9780262533768
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher