MCA Abstract 6 (4)

From: Peggy Bengel (pbengel@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 09:22:58 PST


This abstract for Peter Jone's article should have been included with
those appearing in Vol. 6, No. 4 of MCA. My apologies for any confusion.

Peggy

The "Embodied Mind": Contrasting Visions

Peter E. Jones
Sheffield Hallam University

This paper presents a critical examination and discussion of two
arguments in support of the "embodied mind" position as developed
within the philosophical literature of the Cognitive Linguistics
paradigm. Employing the dialectical materialist approach of Evald
Ilyenkov, closely allied to the cultural-historical and activity theory
traditions, the paper argues that neither Lakoff's cases of reasoning
from "typical examples" nor Thelen and Smith's example of dynamic
cognition undermine a materialist perspective on cognition as a
process of knowing the objective properties of an independently
existing reality.



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