Robert A. Wilson

Boundaries of the Mind

The Individual in the Fragile Sciences - Cognition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides the foundations for the view that the mind extends beyond the boundary of the individual.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 784g
• ISBN-13: 9780521836456
• ISBN-10: 052183645X
• Artikelnr.: 22485619

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Wilson is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Disciplining the Individual and the Mind: 1. The individual in the fragile sciences
2. Individuals, psychology and the mind
3. Nativism on my mind
Part II. Individualism and Externalism in the Philosophy of Mind and the Cognitive Sciences: 4. Individualism: philosophical foundations
5. Metaphysics, mind and science: two views of realization
6. Context-sensitive realizations
7. Representation, computation and cognitive science
Part III. Thinking through and beyond the Body: 8. The embedded mind and cognition
9. Expanding consciousness
10. Intentionality and phenomenology
Part IV. The Cognitive Metaphor in the Biological and Social Sciences: 11. Group minds in historical perspective
12. The group mind hypothesis in contemporary biology and social science
Notes
References
Index.