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Out of the cave : a natural philosophy of mind and knowing / Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Mark, 1949- author.
- Tucker, Don M., author.
- Series:
- MIT Press.
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A grand, unified "natural philosophy of mind" that draws equally from the embodied cognition and cognitive neuroscience literature"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Toward a natural philosophy of mind
- The philosophical quest for ultimate knowledge
- The intertwining of self and knowledge
- A pragmatist naturalistic framework for embodied mind and knowing
- The challenge of a meaningful science of mind
- Embodied meaning and thought
- The mind's anatomy
- How information is captured by neural networks
- The motive control of experience
- What is a concept? The influence of motive control on conceptual structure
- Abstraction, self-awareness, and the subjective basis of knowledge
- A contemporary natural philosophy of mind and knowing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36723-8
- 0-262-36724-6
- OCLC:
- 1255633060
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