Out of the cave : a natural philosophy of mind and knowing /

A grand, unified "natural philosophy of mind" that draws equally from the embodied cognition and cognitive neuroscience literature.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Johnson, Mark, 1949- (Author), Tucker, Don M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Toward a natural philosophy of mind
  • The philosophical quest for ultimate knowledge
  • The intertwining of self and knowledge
  • A pragmatist naturalistic framework for embodied mind and knowing
  • The challenge of a meaningful science of mind
  • Embodied meaning and thought
  • The mind's anatomy
  • How information is captured by neural networks
  • The motive control of experience
  • What is a concept? The influence of motive control on conceptual structure
  • Abstraction, self-awareness, and the subjective basis of knowledge
  • A contemporary natural philosophy of mind and knowing.