Gallagher, Shaun, 1948-
Oxford New York : Clarendon Press, 2005.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-278) and index.
- pt. I. Scientific and phenomenological investigations of embodiment — 1. The terms of embodiment — 2. The case of the missing schema — 3. The earliest senses of self and others — 4. Pursuing a phantom — 5. The body in gesture — pt. II. Excursions in philosophy and pathology — 6. Prenoetic constraints on perception and action — 7. Neurons and neonates : reflections on the Molyneux problem — 8. Complex structures and common dynamics of self-awareness — 9. The interactive practice of mind — 10. Before you know it.
- 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 phenomenology and philosophy of mind.
- Shaun Gallagher’s book aims to contribute to the formulation of that common vocabulary and to develop a conceptual framework that will avoid both the overly reductionistic approaches that explain everything in terms of bottom-up neuronal mechanisms, and inflationistic approaches that explain everything in terms of Cartesian, top-down cognitive states. –Jacket.
Subjects:
- Mind and body.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Consciousness.
- Human Body.
- Mental Processes.
- Philosophy.
- Self Concept.
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