Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Symbols and Embodiment$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.

Manuel de Vega, Arthur Glenberg, and Arthur Graesser

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199217274

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217274.001.0001

Mending or abandoning cognitivism?

Chapter:
(p. 357 ) Chapter 17 Mending or abandoning cognitivism?
Source:
Symbols and Embodiment
Author(s):

Antoni Gomila

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217274.003.0017

This chapter explores whether current interest in an embodied, embedded approach to cognition should be carried out as an alternative only to abstract symbols, while keeping most of cognitivism, or rather as a proper alternative to cognitivism. It emphasizes the shortcomings and risks of a cognitivist version of the embodied meaning approach, favouring a more radical, interactivist, and dynamical approach to cognition.

Keywords:   cognitivism, cognition, embodied meaning, abstract symbols

Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .