The first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neurophilosophical to the anthropological.Recent …
An overview of today's diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to action and the relationship of action and cognition.The emerging field of action science is …
How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds-intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.What do …
Valerie Gray Hardcastle argues that both professional and lay definitions of pain are wrongheaded-with consequences for how pain and pain patients are treated, how psychological …
In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another …
According to the widespread conceptualist view, all mental contents are governed by concepts an individual possesses. In recent years, however, an increasing number of philosophers …
An introduction to the application of dynamical systems science to the cognitive sciences.Dynamical Cognitive Science makes available to the cognitive science community the …
Highlighting the close relationship between linguistic explanation and learnability, Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky examine the implications of Optimality Theory (OT) for language …
A philosophical refashioning of the Language of Thought approach and the related computational theory of mind.The language of thought (LOT) approach to the nature of mind has been …
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.How is …
