Bodies and Other Objects: The Sensorimotor Foundations of Cognition - Softcover

Ellis, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107629802 ISBN 13: 9781107629806

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Bodies and Other Objects is written for students, scholars and anyone with an interest in embodied cognition - the claim that the human mind cannot be understood without regard for the actions and capacities of the body. The impulse to write this book was a dissatisfaction with the inconsistent, and often shallow, use of the term 'embodied cognition'. This text attempts to reframe cognitive science with a unified theory of embodied cognition in which sensorimotor elements provide the basis for cognition, including symbolic exchanges that arise within a society of agents. It draws ideas and evidence from experimental psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and anthropology in reaching the conclusion that human cognition is best understood as the means by which exchanges within a constantly evolving network of skilful bodies and objects are regulated so as to further human interests.

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About the Author

Rob Ellis is Emeritus Professor of Psychology within the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107629802
• ISBN 13: 9781107629806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214