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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the
environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the
perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A.
Sepulveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the
central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by
contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The
enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon
emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that
evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and
linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint,
Sepulveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the
theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and
cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development;
the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an
active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and
sense-making occurs in a domain consisting of multiple normative
dimensions that the author names enactive place.
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Symposium
(Hardcover)
Plato; Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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R602
Discovery Miles 6 020
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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George Berkeley's investigation of human epistemology remains one
of the most respected of its time - this edition contains the
treatise in full, complete with the author's preface. One of
Berkeley's most important beliefs was that of immaterialism. The
meaning being that nothing material exists unless it is perceived
by something or someone. Distinct from solipsism - the belief that
only the self exists - Berkeley's view is that material items are
ideas formed by distinct conscious minds; the concept of reality
being simply the summation of shared ideas rather than physical
objects fascinated philosophers of the era. Much of Berkeley's
philosophy is framed by then-new discoveries in the field of
physics. The concepts of color and light thus have a frequent
bearing on the overall thesis; disagreeing with Isaac Newton on the
subject of space, it was later that Berkeley's contrarian opinions
on matters such as calculus and free-thinking gained him further
renown.
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Walking
(Hardcover)
Henry David Thoreau
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R683
Discovery Miles 6 830
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of
nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature,
physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending
more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a
self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away
from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find
other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society.
This new edition of Thoreau's classic work includes annotations and
a biographical essay.
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