Bodies and Other Objects

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Rob EllisCambridge University Press, 11/1/2018EAN 9781107060289, ISBN10: 1107060281Hardcover, 300 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cmLanguage: EnglishBodies and Other Objects is written fo r students, scholars and anyone with an interest in embodied cognition - the claim that the human mind cannot be understood without regard for the actions and capacities of the body. The impulse to write this book was a dissatisfaction with the inconsistent, and often shallow, use of the term 'embodied cognition'. This text attempts to reframe cognitive science with a unified theory of embodied cognition in which sensorimotor elements provide the basis for cognition, including symbolic exchanges that arise within a society of agents. It draws ideas and evidence from experimental psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and anthropology in reaching the conclusion that human cognition is best understood as the means by which exchanges within a constantly evolving network of skilful bodies and objects are regulated so as to further human interests.Introduction1. Reframing cognition2. Vision and action3. Tool use and tool incorporation4. Agency, objects and others5. Material cultures6. Language7. A synthesisnetworks of human agents as physical symbol systems. Show more