The mind, the body, and the world: psychology after cognitivism?

The roots of cognitivism lie deep in the history of Western thought, and to develop a genuinely post-cognitivist psychology, this investigation goes back to presuppositions descended from Platonic/Cartesian assumptions and beliefs about the nature of thought. Cover Contents Front Matter Title Page Publisher Information Editors & Contributors The Mind, the Body and the World Introduction Theory The Embodied Mind & the Illusion of Disembodied Thoughts Mental Life The Radical Constructivist Dynamics of Cognition Unifying Experience: Imagination & Self-Consciousness The Human Stain How Will We Know When We Have Become Post-Cognitivists? Language Symbols Without Rules Distributional Accounts of Language Variation, Competition and Selection in the Self-Organisation of Compositionality On Human Temporality - Time, Language, and a Sense of Self Is Language the Ultimate Artefact? Practice Grounding Visual Object Representation In Action Ecological Cognition: A New Dynamic for Human-Computer Interaction The Elusiveness of Cognition Conclusion: The Future of an Illusion Also Available

Concerning the cognitive, or information processing approach to psychology, this book asks what it is, how it originated, and whether and how desirable it is to look for ways that go beyond it.