The New Science Of The Mind: From Extended Mind To Embodied Phenomenology (bradford Books)

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There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new science of the mind. Traditional attempts to study the mind are based on the idea that mental processes--perceiving, remembering, thinking, reasoning--exist in brains; they are often described as "software" realized by the "hardware" of the brain. The new way of thinking about the mind has emerged from the confluence of various disciplines in cognitive science ranging from perceptual and developmental psychology to robotics. It emphasizes the ways in which mental processes are embodied (partly made up of extra-neural bodily structures and processes), embedded (designed to function in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted in part by action), and extended (located in the environment). The new way of thinking about the mind, Rowlands writes, is actually an old way of thinking that has taken on new form. Rowlands describes a conception of mind that had its clearest expression in phenomenology--in the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He builds on these views, clarifies and renders consistent the ideas of embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended mind, and develops a unified philosophical treatment of the novel conception of the mind that underlies the new science of the mind.

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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 © 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying; recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email [email protected] or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Stone Sans and Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rowlands, Mark. The new science of the mind : from extended mind to embodied phenomenology / Mark Rowlands. p. 1/ cm. A Bradford book. 1/ Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-01455-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Cognitive science. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Mental Processes. 2. Philosophy, Medical. BF 441 R883n 2010] BF3 11 .R685 2010 153-dc22 2010003 182 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Emma Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix 1 Expanding the Mind 2 Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science 3 The Mind Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended 4 Objections to the Mind Amal gamated 5 The Mark of the Cognitive 1 07 6 The Problem of Ownership 1 35 7 Intentionality as Revealing Activity 8 The Mind Amalgamated Notes 219 References Index 239 229 1 189 25 85 1 63 51 Preface and Acknowledgments I s
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