Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again - Hardcover

Clark, Andy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262032406 ISBN 13: 9780262032407

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1996

Synopsis

The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity. From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.

About this title

About the Author:

Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Review:

"Clark's book is an excellent introduction to this new movement incognitive science. It is clear, wide ranging, well informed, and fullof fascinating examples. And, unusually, it manages to be botheminently sensible and highly provocative." Margaret A. Boden , Nature

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0262032406
• ISBN 13: 9780262032407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 269