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Body language : representation in action / Mark Rowlands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowlands, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Externalism (Philosophy of mind).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Representation: The Word and the Deed
- 2 Content Externalism
- 3 Vehicle Externalism
- 4 The Myths of the Giving
- 5 Enacting Representation
- 6 Actions, Doings, and Deeds
- 7 The Informational Constraint
- 8 The Teleological Constraint
- 9 Decouplability and Misrepresentation
- 10 The Combinatorial Constraint
- 11 Representation in Action
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- "A Bradford book".
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-26440-4
- 1-282-09733-4
- 9786612097331
- 0-262-28274-7
- 1-4294-1875-3
- OCLC:
- 191935457
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