Out of the Cave
A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing
Published on 17. August 2021
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-262-04621-3 (ISBN)
Description
"A grand, unified 'natural philosophy of mind' that draws equally from the embodied cognition and cognitive neuroscience literature"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
12
Dimensions
Height: 163 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
692 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04621-3 (9780262046213)
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Persons
Mark L. Johnson is Professor of Philosophy and Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emeritus, at the University of Oregon. He is most recently the author of Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason as well as The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought and other books. Don M. Tucker is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Neuroinformatics Center at the University of Oregon. Inventor of the geodesic sensor net, he is CEO and Senior Scientist at Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory Company.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Toward a Natural Philosophy of Mind
2 The Philosophical Quest for Ultimate Knowledge
3 The Intertwining of Self and Knowledge
4 A Pragmatist Naturalistic Framework for Embodied Mind and Knowing
5 The Challenge of a Meaningful Science of Mind: The Quest for an Objective Human Science
6 Embodied Meaning and Thought
7 The Mind's Anatomy
8 How Information is Captured by Neural Networks
9 The Motive Control of Experience
10 What Is a Concept? The Influence of Motive Control on the Formation of Concepts and Personality
11 Abstraction, Self-Awareness, and the Subjective Basis of Knowledge
12 Outline for a Contemporary Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing
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Index
1 Toward a Natural Philosophy of Mind
2 The Philosophical Quest for Ultimate Knowledge
3 The Intertwining of Self and Knowledge
4 A Pragmatist Naturalistic Framework for Embodied Mind and Knowing
5 The Challenge of a Meaningful Science of Mind: The Quest for an Objective Human Science
6 Embodied Meaning and Thought
7 The Mind's Anatomy
8 How Information is Captured by Neural Networks
9 The Motive Control of Experience
10 What Is a Concept? The Influence of Motive Control on the Formation of Concepts and Personality
11 Abstraction, Self-Awareness, and the Subjective Basis of Knowledge
12 Outline for a Contemporary Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing
References
Index