Scaffolded Minds
Integration and Disintegration
- Paperback
284 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2025
Summary
In Scaffolded Minds, Somogy Varga offers a novel account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders. The book is part of the growing philosophical engagement with empirically informed philosophy of mind, which studies the interfaces between philosophy and cognitive science. Varga draws on two recent shifts within empirically informed philosophy of mind: the first, toward an intensified study of the embodied mind; and the second, toward a study of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553407 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262553406 |
| Author: | Somogy Varga |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 284 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Philosophical Psychopathology |
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About The Author
Somogy Varga
Somogy Varga is Professor of Philosophy at Aarhus University, Denmark. He previously worked at the University of Memphis (2012-2019), the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabr ck (2009-2012), and the Institute of Social Research at Goethe University Frankfurt (2007-2009). He is the author of Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal and Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder.
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