Mind in Nature
John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2023
Summary
A dialogue between contemporary neuroscience and John Dewey’s seminal philosophical work Experience and Nature, exploring how the bodily roots of human meaning, selfhood, and values provide wisdom for living.
The intersection of cognitive science and pragmatist philosophy reveals the bodily basis of human meaning, thought, selfhood, and values. John Dewey’s revolutionary account of pragmatist philosophy Experience and Nature (1925) explores humans as complex social a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262545167 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262545160 |
| Author: | Mark L. Johnson, Jay Schulkin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Mark L. Johnson
Mark L. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is a developer of embodied cognition theory, focusing on the philosophical implications of human embodiment for meaning, conceptualization, reasoning, values, and knowing. He has written multiple books on cognitive science and embodiment, including most recently Out of the Cave- A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing (MIT Press, 2021).
Jay Schulkin is Research Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Washington. Many of his previous books in neuroscience and philosophy integrate a pragmatist and evolutionary perspective with contemporary cognitive and neural science. He has published two previous books with the MIT Press, Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function (2000) and Rethinking Homeostasis (2003).
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