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How Things Shape the Mind : A Theory of Material Engagement.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262315661
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How Things Shape the MindDDC classification:
  • 612.8
LOC classification:
  • QP360.6.M35 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I Cognition and Material Culture -- 2 Rethinking the Archaeology of Mind -- 3 The Material-Engagement Approach: A Summary of the Argument -- II Outline of a Theory of Material Engagement -- 4 The Extended Mind -- 5 The Enactive Sign -- 6 Material Agency -- III Marking the Mental: Where Brain, Body, and Culture Conflate -- 7 Knapping Intentions and the Handmade Mind -- 8 Thoughtful Marks, Lines, and Signs -- 9 Becoming One with the Clay -- 10 Epilogue: How Do Things Shape the Mind? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I Cognition and Material Culture -- 2 Rethinking the Archaeology of Mind -- 3 The Material-Engagement Approach: A Summary of the Argument -- II Outline of a Theory of Material Engagement -- 4 The Extended Mind -- 5 The Enactive Sign -- 6 Material Agency -- III Marking the Mental: Where Brain, Body, and Culture Conflate -- 7 Knapping Intentions and the Handmade Mind -- 8 Thoughtful Marks, Lines, and Signs -- 9 Becoming One with the Clay -- 10 Epilogue: How Do Things Shape the Mind? -- Notes -- References -- Index.

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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