Ronald Lemmen (1994) Taking Experiences Seriously
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Psycoloquy 5(28): Taking Experiences Seriously
TAKING EXPERIENCES SERIOUSLY
Book Review of Sheets-Johnstone on Evolution-Thinking
Ronald Lemmen
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
The University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH England
ronaldl@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Abstract
In showing how meaning and human thinking and practices
are rooted in the tactile-kinesthetic body, "The Roots of Thinking"
provides an interesting and welcome new perspective on cognition.
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (1990) leaves no room to doubt the need for
a thorough "corporeal turn" in cognitive science.
Keywords
analogical thinking, animate form, concepts, evolution,
tactile-kinesthetic body.
References
- Brooks, R. (1991) Intelligence Without Representations, Artificial Intelligence 47: 139-159.
- Cussins, A. (1990) The Connectionist Construction of Concepts. In The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, M. Boden (ed), 368-440, Oxford University Press.
- Hendriks-Jansen, H. (forthcoming) In Praise of Interactive Emergence. In Proceedings of the Fourth Artificial Life Conference, R. Brooks (ed).
- Johnson, M. (1987) The Body in the Mind. University of Chicago Press.
- Lakoff, G. (1987) Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. University of Chicago Press.
- Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1990) The Roots of Thinking. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1994) Precis of The Roots of Thinking. PSYCOLOQUY 5(8) evolution-thinking.1.sheets-johnstone.