The Body in Mind(English, Hardcover, Rowlands Mark)

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The Body in Mind(English, Hardcover, Rowlands Mark) is written by Rowlands Mark and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 052165274X (ISBN 10) and 9780521652742 (ISBN 13).

In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. Cognition is not something done exclusively in the head, but fundamentally something done in the world. Drawing on both evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes involved in perception, memory, thought and language use, Rowlands argues that cognition is, in part, a process whereby creatures manipulate and exploit relevant objects in their environment. It is not simply an internal process of information processing; equally significantly, it is an external process of information processing. This innovative book provides a foundation for an unorthodox but increasingly popular view of the nature of cognition.