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Introduction

Author(s): Victoria Stone
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych

Summary/Abstract: I have always been quite partial to fashion. I think of it as an expression of one's thoughts, ideas and personality. Perhaps this is why I have in the past been so attracted to accounts of cognition that like to call them selves “embodied” or “embedded” (Note that these terms ought not be mistaken to mean the same thing. I present them in a relation here merely because they are branches of a similar tree of thought). The central claim inherent in all of these views is that one ought to recognize the role of the body and the environment in human cognition. Indeed, despite their technical differences, all three of these views hold that the brain, body and world are “coupled”. Brain, body and world are tied together in a dynamical loop within which some sort of special relationship holds. This has seemed to me as intuitively correct. Why? [...]

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 21-26
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish