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Book SynopsisMatthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and history of science,
Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended nature of mind.
Trade ReviewMind Ecologies is a valuable and comprehensive contribution that certainly strengthens and amplifies recent efforts to show that pragmatism is an extremely useful asset that can bring different perspectives to contemporary debates on affectivity, embodiment, and the ecological relation between agents and the environment. -- Carlos Vara Sanchez * European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy *
Mind Ecologies offers a lively and informative history of Pragmatist thought, revealing how it both anticipated current work in philosophy and the sciences of the mind, and how it can be applied to great effect. Crippen and Schulkin make a convincing case that we are 'living ecologies'—integrated, interdependent systems—not detached, isolated intellects. -- Louise Barrett, author of
Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human MindsMind Ecologies is wide-ranging and timely both as a contribution to today's philosophy of cognitive science and as a reminder of historical antecedents. This work will amplify and improve upon recent attempts to show that pragmatism and phenomenological philosophy are relevant to today’s sciences of the mind. -- Anthony Chemero, author of
Radical Embodied Cognitive ScienceThis accessibly written book was long due. We finally have a clear and detailed overview of how pragmatism anticipated many key ideas of the field of 4E cognition. One theme that stands out as particularly interesting and refreshing is the pragmatists' emphasis on the affective-evaluative and aesthetic dimension of perception and cognition. -- Giovanna Colombetti, author of
The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive MindAccessible for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students...Recommended. * Choice *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Life, Experimentalism, and Valuation
2. Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science
3. Social Cohesion, Experience, and Aesthetics
4. Pragmatism and Affective Cognition
5. Perception, Affect, World
6. Broadening Ecologies
Appendix 1: Subcortical Structures of the Brain
Appendix 2: Cortical Structures of the Brain
Notes
Bibliography
Index
