Week 3: Embodied Cognition
Week 3: Recommendations
Books
**The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience, by Matthew Cobb
**BS 171
Mind in Life: Biology. Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind by Evan Thompson
(BSP 89). A deep dive into both the neuroscience and the philosophy of embodied cognition.
Episodes of Brain Science
**What is Mind? BS 193: a concise overview of Embodied Cognition
Rolf Pfeifer: BSP 25
Evan Thompson: BSP 89 and BS 202
Embodied Cognition in Education: BS 200 <— not mentioned in class due to lack of time
** Highly recommended
Note: a much more extensive reading list and list of recommended episodes appears at the end of the Embodied Cognition Student Handout entitled “How the Mind Came to have a Body.”
