Digital List Price:	CDN$ 31.50
Print List Price:	CDN$ 31.12
Kindle Price:	CDN$ 15.99 Save CDN$ 15.13 (49%)
	includes free international wireless delivery via *Amazon Whispernet*

Promotions are applied when you make a purchase

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Share <Embed>

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (MIT Press) by [Chemero, Anthony]

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (MIT Press) Kindle Edition

by Anthony Chemero (Author)

Be the first to review this item

See all 5 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle Edition

"Please retry"

CDN$ 15.99

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

—

CDN$ 77.12

CDN$ 48.73

Paperback

"Please retry"

CDN$ 31.77

CDN$ 17.85

CDN$ 26.46

While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them in terms of mental representation. In this book, Anthony Chemero describes this nonrepresentational approach (which he terms radical embodied cognitive science), puts it in historical and conceptual context, and applies it to traditional problems in the philosophy of mind. Radical embodied cognitive science is a direct descendant of the American naturalist psychology of William James and John Dewey, and follows them in viewing perception and cognition to be understandable only in terms of action in the environment. Chemero argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than in terms of computation and representation. After outlining this orientation to cognition, Chemero proposes a methodology: dynamical systems theory, which would explain things dynamically and without reference to representation. He also advances a background theory: Gibsonian ecological psychology, "shored up" and clarified. Chemero then looks at some traditional philosophical problems (reductionism, epistemological skepticism, metaphysical realism, consciousness) through the lens of radical embodied cognitive science and concludes that the comparative ease with which it resolves these problems, combined with its empirical promise, makes this approach to cognitive science a rewarding one. "Jerry Fodor is my favorite philosopher," Chemero writes in his preface, adding, "I think that Jerry Fodor is wrong about nearly everything." With this book, Chemero explains nonrepresentational, dynamical, ecological cognitive science as clearly and as rigorously as Jerry Fodor explained computational cognitive science in his classic work The Language of Thought.

Length: 269 pages

Word Wise: Enabled

Similar books to Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (MIT Press)

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel, please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Andy Clark
Kindle Edition
CDN$ 10.79
Lawrence Shapiro
Kindle Edition
CDN$ 51.95
Alva Noe

2

Kindle Edition
CDN$ 10.99
George Lakoff

17

Kindle Edition
CDN$ 16.19
Mark Rowlands

1

Kindle Edition
CDN$ 19.99
Charles Fernyhough
Kindle Edition
CDN$ 18.99

Product Details

Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 877 KB
Print Length: 269 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0262013223
Publisher: A Bradford Book; Reprint edition (Aug. 19 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B004GCIPK0
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

X-Ray:

Not Enabled

Word Wise: Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled

Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #266,270 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #41 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Criticism
- #229 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Criticism
- #359 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling > Cognitive

Would you like to give feedback on images or tell us about a lower price?

Customer Reviews

There are no customer reviews yet.

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star

Write a customer review

Your Recently Viewed Items

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

by Philip Mirowski

›See more in the Page You Made

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.

Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book? Click here

Would you like to report this content as inappropriate? Click here

Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Click here

Amazon Web Services Scalable Cloud Computing Services	Book Depository Books With Free Delivery Worldwide	Diapers.com Everything But The Baby	Goodreads Book reviews & recommendations

IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities	Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands	Warehouse Deals Open-Box Discounts	Yoyo.com A Happy Place To Shop For Toys

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (MIT Press) Kindle Edition

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product Details

Customer Reviews

Your Recently Viewed Items

Look for similar items by category