The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy) - Hardcover

9780415623612: The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415623618 ISBN 13: 9780415623612

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading for any student and scholar of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts:

Historical underpinnings
Perspectives on embodied cognition
Applied embodied cognition: perception, language, and reasoning
Applied embodied cognition: social and moral cognition and emotion
Applied embodied cognition: memory, attention, and group cognition
Meta-topics.

The early chapters of the Handbook cover empirical and philosophical foundations of embodied cognition, focusing on Gibsonian and phenomenological approaches. Subsequent chapters cover additional, important themes common to work in embodied cognition, including embedded, extended and enactive cognition as well as chapters on empirical research in perception, language, reasoning, social and moral cognition, emotion, consciousness, memory, and learning and development.

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About the Author

Lawrence Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA. He has authored many articles spanning the range of philosophy of psychology. His most recent book, Embodied Cognition (Routledge, 2011), won the American Philosophical Association’s Joseph B. Gittler award in 2013.

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