The Embodied Mind Revised Edition Cognitive Science and Human Experience 1st Edition by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch ISBN 978-0262529365 0262529365

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ISBN 10:  0262529365

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Author: Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch

A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.
This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential. Through this cross-fertilization of disparate fields of study, The Embodied Mind introduced a new form of cognitive science called “enaction,” in which both the environment and first person experience are aspects of embodiment. However, enactive embodiment is not the grasping of an independent, outside world by a brain, a mind, or a self; rather it is the bringing forth of an interdependent world in and through embodied action. Although enacted cognition lacks an absolute foundation, the book shows how that does not lead to either experiential or philosophical nihilism. Above all, the book’s arguments were powered by the conviction that the sciences of mind must encompass lived human experience and the possibilities for transformation inherent in human experience.

This revised edition includes substantive introductions by Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch that clarify central arguments of the work and discuss and evaluate subsequent research that has expanded on the themes of the book, including the renewed theoretical and practical interest in Buddhism and mindfulness. A preface by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the originator of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program, contextualizes the book and describes its influence on his life and work.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1: A Fundamental Circularity – In the Mind of the Reflective Scientist
An Already-Given Condition
What Is Cognitive Science?
Cognitive Science within the Circle
The Theme of This Book

Chapter 2: What Do We Mean “Human Experience”?
Science and the Phenomenological Tradition
The Breakdown of Phenomenology
A Non-Western Philosophical Tradition
Examining Experience with a Method: Mindfulness/Awareness
The Role of Reflection in the Analysis of Experience
Experimentation and Experiential Analysis

Chapter 3: Symbols – The Cognitivist Hypothesis
The Foundational Cloud
Defining the Cognitivist Hypothesis
Manifestations of Cognitivism
Cognitivism and Human Experience
Experience and the Computational Mind

Chapter 4: The I of the Storm
What Do We Mean by “Self”?
Looking for a Self in the Aggregates
Momentariness and the Brain
The Aggregates without a Self

Chapter 5: Emergent Properties and Connectionism
Self-Organization: The Roots of an Alternative
The Connectionist Strategy
Emergence and Self-Organization
Connectionism Today
Neuronal Emergences
The Symbols Come Out
Linking Symbols and Emergence

Chapter 6: Selfless Minds
Societies of Mind
The Society of Object Relations
Codependent Arising
Basic Element Analysis
Mindfulness and Freedom
Selfless Minds; Divided Agents
Minding the World

Chapter 7: The Cartesian Anxiety
A Sense of Dissatisfaction
Representation Revisited
Steps to a Middle Way

Chapter 8: Enaction – Embodied Cognition
Recovering Common Sense
Self-Organization Revisited
Color as a Study Case
Cognition as Embodied Action
The Retreat into Natural Selection

Chapter 9: Evolutionary Path Making and Natural Drift
Adaptationism: An Idea in Transition
A Horizon of Multiple Mechanisms
Beyond the Best in Evolution and Cognition
Evolution: Ecology and Development in Congruence
Lessons from Evolution as Natural Drift
Defining the Enactive Approach
Enactive Cognitive Science
In Conclusion

Chapter 10: The Middle Way
Evocations of Groundlessness
Nagarjuna and the Madhyamaka Tradition
The Two Truths
Groundlessness in Contemporary Thought

Chapter 11: Laying Down a Path in Walking
Science and Experience in Circulation
Nihilism and the Need for Planetary Thinking
Nishitani Keiji
Ethics and Human Transformation

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