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The pragmatic turn toward action-oriented views in cognitive science
Cognitive science is experiencing a pragmatic turn away from the traditional representation-centered framework toward a view that focuses on understanding cognition as 'enactive'. This enactive view holds that cognition does not produce models of the world but rather subserves action as it is grounded in sensorimotor skills. In this volume, experts from cognitive science, neuroscience, psycholo…
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Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
Hutto and Myin promote the cause of a radically enactive, embodied approach to cognition which holds that some kinds of minds - basic minds - are neither best explained by processes involving the manipulation of contents nor inherently contentful. It opposes the widely endorsed thesis that cognition always and everywhere involves content. The authors defend the counter-thesis that there can be …
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- 0262312174
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Dynamic Coordination in the Brain: From Neurons to Mind
This text is an examination of how widely distributed and specialized activities of the brain are flexibly and effectively coordinated.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289818
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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What Is Cognitive Science?
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285629
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- 1 online resource (x, 466 pages) :illustrations
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What Is Thought?
Bradford Books.In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-day inability of computer science to explain thought and meaning is no reason to do…
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- 9780262310574
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The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262301725
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- 1 online resource (xii, 365 pages) :illustrations
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Experienced Wholeness: Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Ne…
An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally. How can we account for phenomenal unity? That is, how can we characterize and explain our experience of objects and groups of objects, bodily experiences, successions of events, and the attentional structure of consciousness…
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Embodied Social Cognition
This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the last decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism, to emphasizing the way cognition is shaped by the body and its sensorimotor interaction with the surroun…
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
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The Handbook of Rationality
The first reference on rationality that integrates accounts from psychology and philosophy, covering descriptive and normative theories from both disciplines. Both analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology have made dramatic advances in understanding rationality, but there has been little interaction between the disciplines. This volume offers the first integrated overview of the state of…
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