The New Science of the Mind
The New Science of the Mind
From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology
Mark Rowlands
A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, M assachusetts london, England
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
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Expanding the Mind
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Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science
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The Mind Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended
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Objections to the Mind Amal gamated
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The Mark of the Cognitive
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The Problem of Ownership
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Intentionality as Revealing Activity
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The Mind Amalgamated
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