Mind ecologies : body, brain, and world /
Pragmatism, a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and embodied cognitive science, is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts and religious scholarship, along with branches of political theory, not to mention our under...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Pragmatism, a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and embodied cognitive science, is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts and religious scholarship, along with branches of political theory, not to mention our understanding of science. But philosophies and sciences of mind have lagged behind this pragmatic turn, for the most part retaining a central nervous system orientation, which pragmatists reject as too narrow. Matthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. They argue that pragmatism in combination with phenomenology is not only able to give an unusually persuasive rendering of how we think, feel, experience and act in the world but also provides the account most consistent with current evidence from cognitive science and neurobiology. Crippen and Schulkin contend that cognition, emotion and perception are incomplete without action, and in action they fuse together. Not only are we embodied subjects whose thoughts, emotions and capacities comprise one integrated system. We are living ecologies inseparable from our surroundings, our cultures and our world. Ranging from social coordination to the role of gut bacteria and visceral organs in mental activity, and touching upon fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence and plant cognition, Crippen and Schulkin stress the role of aesthetics, emotions, interests and moods in the ongoing enactment of experience. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology and the history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted and extended nature of mind. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231190244 0231190247 9780231190251 0231190255 |