Radical embodied cognitive science
By: Anthony Chemero.
Series: A Bradford Book
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780262013222
Subjects: Perception -- Research; Cognitive science
Description: Anthony Chemero makes a proposal for a new way to do cognitive science, arguing that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation & representation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: In praise of Dr. Fodor; title: Stage setting; title: Hegel, Behe, Chomsky, Fodor; title: (Radical) embodied cognitive science; title: Representation and dynamics; title: Theories of representation; title: The dynamical stance; title: Guides to discovery; title: Ecological psychology; title: Information and direct perception; title: Affordances, etc.; title: Philosophical consequences; title: Radical embodied cognitive science meets neurophilosophy; title: The metaphysics of embodiment; title: Coda.