The Mind Incarnate (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
"Shapiro's important new book casts a critical eye at an idea that has long been standard in cognitive science and in philosophy of mind: that mental states and processes are 'multiply realizable.' Shapiro distinguishes trivial from substantive versions of this thesis and musters a variety of scientific reasons for doubting the substantive ones. This book should lead scientists and philosophers to reconsider the pervasive assumption that the mind can be understood without reference to the material basis of mental processes." Elliott Sober, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University"Taking Rodney Brooks' pronouncement 'It isn't German philosophy' as his point of departure, Wheeler shows that, on the contrary, much of the most recent and interesting work in cognitive science has been implicitly, but importantly, guided by principles that derive from the work of the great German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger. In rigorously and lucidly prosecuting this case, Wheeler develops a devastating attack on Cartesian cognitive science, and produces his own significant contribution towards an embedded and embodied alternative. This is a wonderful and timely book."--Mark Rowlands, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, UK