Year: 2005
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Embodied Cognition (EC) is a comprehensive approach to, and framework for, the study of the mind. EC treats cognition as a coordinated set of tools evolved by organisms for coping with their environments. Each of the key terms in this characterization—tool, evolved, organism, coping, and environment—has a special significance for understanding the mind that is discussed in this article. Although it is typical to introduce the embodied cognition thesis with a litany of criticism of current approaches to the mind, I should like, with this article, to say publicly that I believe this method to be unnecessary and obsolete. Embodied cognition (EC) is a comprehensive approach to, and framework for, the study of the mind, and it has reached a level of maturity where it is no longer necessary to justify it with reference to the problems and oversights of some different, presumably more respectable, approach. As with any scientific paradigm, EC has a history, and the interested reader is encouraged to
Author: Michael L. Anderson
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1601424536