Traditional cognitive science ('cognitivism') is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world. This leads to the claim that cognition is representational and best explained by AI and computational theory. The authors in this volume develop a critique of cognitivism and introduce an alternative approach - which owes more to evolutionary biology, embodied robotics, phenomenology and dynamical systems. Contributors include Andy Clark, Esther Thelen, Eleanor Rosch, Christine Skarda, Brian Goodwin and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. More Reviews and Recommendations

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