New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Adaptation and Cephalic Expression

Schulkin, J.

Theories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize objects as common, as that which can also be seen in much the same way by others? Such constitution of intersubjectively accessible objects is bound up with our flexible and sophisticated capacities for social cognition understanding others and their desires, intentions, emotions, and moods which are crucial to the way human beings live. This book is about contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. This emphasis on embodiment and embeddedness is a change from traditional theories, which focused on isolated, representational, and conceptual cognition. In the new perspectives contained in our book, such 'pure' cognition is thought to be under-girded and interpenetrated by embodied and embedded processes.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-02-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230282582

DOI: 10.1057/9780230360792

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 272