The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition

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Lawrence Shapiro
Routledge, Apr 29, 2014 - Philosophy - 418 pages

Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading for any student and scholar of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts:

  • Historical underpinnings
  • Perspectives on embodied cognition
  • Applied embodied cognition: perception, language, and reasoning
  • Applied embodied cognition: social and moral cognition and emotion
  • Applied embodied cognition: memory, attention, and group cognition
  • Meta-topics.

The early chapters of the Handbook cover empirical and philosophical foundations of embodied cognition, focusing on Gibsonian and phenomenological approaches. Subsequent chapters cover additional, important themes common to work in embodied cognition, including embedded, extended and enactive cognition as well as chapters on empirical research in perception, language, reasoning, social and moral cognition, emotion, consciousness, memory, and learning and development.

 

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Contents

Introduction
1
PART I Historical underpinnings
7
PART II Perspectives on embodied cognition
29
perception language and reasoning
79
social and moral cognition and emotion
195
memory attention and group cognition
261
PART VI Metatopics
359
Index
384
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About the author (2014)

Lawrence Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA. He has authored many articles spanning the range of philosophy of psychology. His most recent book, Embodied Cognition (Routledge, 2011), won the American Philosophical Association’s Joseph B. Gittler award in 2013.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition
Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
EditorLawrence Shapiro
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2014
ISBN131768866X, 9781317688662
Length418 pages
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