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    The Ontology of Ecological Cognition by Werner, Konrad;

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 30 March 2025

    • ISBN 9781032946429
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages284 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 690 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Halftones, black & white; 1 Tables, black & white
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    Short description:

    This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on cognition.

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    Long description:

    This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on cognition.


    The book’s main argument is that ecological/embodied cognition is embedded in various philosophical traditions. It establishes that there is a lack of clarity in how we conceptualize locative relations in contexts having to do with cognition. The book tackles questions of what it means that internal representations are internal, that the external world is external, that the extended mind is extended, how we should understand the claim that cognition and consciousness are in the head, or, alternatively, in the environment. Additionally, it addresses what it means that cognition enacts an environment, which is likely the most controversial claim made in some branches of embodied cognition. The goal of the book is to capture the essential traits of cognition thought of as an ecological phenomenon – as a factor determining a specific locus – and thereby elicit how cognition takes part in the creation of the world as we know it.


    The Ontology of Ecological Cognition will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and metaphysics.



    “This book usefully approaches ecological/embodied cognition as a project rooted in several philosophical traditions and is a fresh and significant proposal in the area of the ontology of cognition.”  


    Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Minds and Places: The Need for a Locative Ontology of Cognition  2. The Locative Commitments of Cartesian Cognitive Science  3. The Ecology of Representational Systems  4. Introducing 4E and its Locative Commitments  5. The Cognitive Niche: A Primer  6. The Basic Ontology of the Bounded Locus  7. The Basic Ontology of Niche Construction  8. Prospects for Ecological Internalism

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