Ten Lectures on Cognition, Mental Representation, and the Self / Robert D. Rupert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rupert, Robert D., author.

Series:

Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 30.

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2023.

Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 30

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2023

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These ten lectures articulate a distinctive vision of the structure and workings of the human mind, drawing from research on embodied cognition as well as from historically more entrenched approaches to the study of human thought. On the author’s view, multifarious materials co-contribute to the production of virtually all forms of human behavior, rendering implausible the idea that human action is best explained by processes taking place in an autonomous mental arena – those in the conscious mind or occurring at the so-called personal level. Rather, human behavior issues from a widely varied, though nevertheless integrated, collection of states and mechanisms, the integrated nature of which is determined by a form of clustering in the components’ contributions to the production of intelligent behavior. This package of resources, the cognitive system, is the human self. Among its elements, the cognitive system includes a vast number of representations, many subsets of which share their content. On the author’s view, redundancy of content itself constitutes an important explanatory quantity; the greater the extent of content-redundancy among representations that co-contribute to the production of an instance of behavior, the more fluid the behavior. In the course of developing and applying these views, the author addresses questions about the content of mental representations, extended cognition, the value of knowledge, and group minds.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Robert D. Rupert

Copyright Page / Robert D. Rupert

Dedication / Robert D. Rupert

Preface by the Series Editor / Thomas Fuyin Li and Junjie Jin

Preface by the Author / Robert D. Rupert

About the Author / Robert D. Rupert

Note on Supplementary Material / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 1 The Personal and Subpersonal Levels: Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 2 What Is Mental Representation? / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 3 A Causal-Developmental Theory of Representational Content / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 4 Embodied Cognition and Its Discontents / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 5 The Massively Representational Mind / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 6 Extended Cognition and the Boundaries of the Mind / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 7 A Systems-Based View of Cognition / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 8 Group-Level Cognition: Do Groups Have Minds of Their Own? / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 9 Self-Knowledge in the Flattened Mind / Robert D. Rupert

Lecture 10 Cognitive Psychology and the Subpersonal Justification of Belief / J. Adam Carter

References / Robert D. Rupert

About the Series Editor / Robert D. Rupert

Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers / Robert D. Rupert.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004535336

9004535330

OCLC:

1384458789

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004535336 DOI