The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 308 pages
• Published by: The MIT Press; New Ed edition November 13, 1992
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0262720213
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0262720212
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 15.2 ounces

Product Review


"An important book with wideranging implications for the construction of subjectivity in the Western tradition. Moreover, it is engagingly written, presenting difficult ideas and complex research programs with grace, lucidity, and style.
—N. Katherine Hayles, American Book Review

Product Description
The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology and situate it in relation to other traditions such as phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

Reader Reviews
Reading this book contributed helpfully to my studies of the phenomenology of the embodied experience. The authors argue that we cannot understand ourselves to be isolated bodies controlled by a mind that stands apart from and judges an independent environment. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in cognitive science, phenomenological philosophy, philosophies of embodiment, and the relationship of Buddhism to these areas of thought.