Body Language: Representation in Action - Softcover

Rowlands, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262516616 ISBN 13: 9780262516617

Publisher: MIT Press, 2011

Synopsis

An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representing of the world consists, in part, in certain sorts of deeds that we perform in the world.

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Review

This book makes a fresh and important contribution to many debates within cognitive science....Body Language will--and should--alter the categories and distinctions we currently use to discuss the boundaries between thought, perception, action and the world.

--Mind

This book is essential reading in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Highly recommended.

--Choice

About the Author

Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes, Body Language: Representation in Action (MIT Press, 2006), The Philosopher and the Wolf, and other books.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0262516616
• ISBN 13: 9780262516617
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 254