Schulkin, J: Mind in Nature

Mark L. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is a developer of embodied cognition theory, focusing on the philosophical implications of human embodiment for meaning, conceptualization, reasoning, values, and knowing. He has written multiple books on cognitive science and embodiment, including most recently Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing (MIT Press, 2021). Jay Schulkin is Research Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Washington. Many of his previous books in neuroscience and philosophy integrate a pragmatist and evolutionary perspective with contemporary cognitive and neural science. He has published two previous books with the MIT Press, Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function (2000) and Rethinking Homeostasis (2003).

Preface xi
1 Introduction: Philosophy, Naturally 1
2 It All Starts with Experience 11
3 The Naturalized Metaphysics of Emerging Mind 31
4 Meaning and Thought 49
5 Consciousness Wakes Up in Mind 75
6 Knowing as Transformative Action 99
7 The Making of a Self 121
8 The Aesthetics of Life and Mind 149
9 Philosophy Naturalized 181
10 Living with Naturalism 207
Appendix 235
References 237
Index 263