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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      November 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511583261
      9780521652742
      9780521049795
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583261
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.435kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.378kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. Cognition is not something done exclusively in the head, but fundamentally something done in the world. Drawing on both evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes involved in perception, memory, thought and language use, Rowlands argues that cognition is, in part, a process whereby creatures manipulate and exploit relevant objects in their environment. It is not simply an internal process of information processing; equally significantly, it is an external process of information processing. This innovative book provides a foundation for an unorthodox but increasingly popular view of the nature of cognition.

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    "His writing is clear, and the position advanced is important for professional psychologists as well as philosophers of mind." Choice

    "The book certainly merits atttention. It brings together some very diverse material, bearing on externalism about the mind, and makes use of it in a distinctive way." Philosophical Review

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