New directions in philosophy and cognitive science
Subtitle: adaptation and cephalic expression
By: edited by Jay Schulkin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230282582
Subjects: Neurosciences; Social perception; PHILOSOPHY / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body; PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology
Description: Theories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize objects as common, as that which can also be seen in much the same way by others? Such constitution of intersubjectively accessible objects is bound up with our flexible and sophisticated capacities for social cognition - understanding others and their desires, intentions, emotions, and moods - which are crucial to the way human beings live. This book is about contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. This emphasis on embodiment and embeddedness is a change from traditional theories, which focused on isolated, representational, and conceptual cognition. In the new perspectives contained in our book, such 'pure' cognition is thought to be under-girded and interpenetrated by embodied and embedded processes.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The slow process : a hypothetical cognitive adaptation for distributed cognitive networks / Merlin Donald; title: Social cognition and cortical function : an evolutionary perspective / Susanne Shultz & Robin I. M. Dunbar / Homo heuristicus and the bias-variance dilemma / Henry Brighton & Gerd Gigerenzer; title: Action, embodied meaning, and thought / Mark Johnson; title: Neo-pragmatism and enactive intentionality / Shaun Gallagher & Katsunori Miyahara; title: Minds, things, and materiality / Michael Wheeler; title: Contributions of mirror mechanisms to the embodiment of cognition / Arthur M.Glenberg; title: The neural systems involved in motor cognition and social contact / Sébastien Hétu & Philip L. Jackson; title: Action and cephalic expression : hermeneutical pragmatism / Jay Schulkin & Patrick Heelan.