Cognitive Integration: Mind and Cognition Unbounded [Hardcover]

This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism. Cognitive systems function through integration of neural and bodily functions with the functions of representational vehicles. The integrationist position offers a fresh contribution to the emerging embodied and embedded approach to the study of mind.Introduction PART I: SETTING THE SCENE Cognitivism and Internalism Externalism, Dynamics and the Extended Mind Defending Cognitive Integration PART II: FORMULATING COGNITIVE INTEGRATION Embodied Engagements and the Manipulation Thesis The Evolution of the Hybrid Mind Cognitive Practices Development and the Transformation of Cognitive Capacities Conclusion: Cognitive Webs IndexRICHARD MENARY lectures at the University of Wollongong in Australia, having formerly been Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published in journals such as Philosophical Psychology and Language Sciences, has edited two books, Radical Enactivism (2006) and The Extended Mind (2007), and is currently writing a book on the philosophy of cognition.