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The ontology of ecological cognition / Konrad Werner

Author
Werner, Konrad (Professor of philosophy)
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Minds and places : the need for a locative ontology of cognition -- The locative commitments of cartesian cognitive science -- The ecology of representational systems -- Introducing 4E and its locative commitments -- The cognitive niche : a primer -- The basic ontology of the bounded locus -- The basic ontology of niche construction -- Prospects for ecological internalism.
Summary
"This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on cognition. The book's main argument is that ecological/embodied cognition is embedded in various philosophical traditions. It establishes that there is a lack of clarity in how we conceptualize locative relations in contexts having to do with cognition. The book tackles questions of what it means that internal representations are internal, that the external world is external, that the extended mind is extended, how we should understand the claim that cognition and consciousness are in the head, or, alternatively, in the environment. Additionally, it addresses what it means that cognition enacts an environment, which is likely the most controversial claim made in some branches of embodied cognition. The goal of the book is to capture the essential traits of cognition thought of as an ecological phenomenon-as a factor determining a specific locus-and thereby elicit how cognition takes part in the creation of the world as we know it. The Ontology of Ecological Cognition will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and metaphysics"--
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9781040335406 electronic book
1040335403 electronic book
1003580998 electronic book
9781040335413 electronic book
1040335411 electronic book
9781003580997 (electronic bk.)
9781032946429 hardcover
1032946423 hardcover
9781032946412 paperback
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