In this month's episode of Brain Science I explore two big picture questions: What does it mean to claim that the Mind is "embodied?" and How does this change our understanding of our place in the world? The conversation was inspired by the book Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing by Mark L Johnson and Donald M Tucker.

This episode builds on several previous discussions of "embodied cognition" so it might be challenging to newer listeners. I have included a list of these earlier episodes below.

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Links and References:

• Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing by Mark L Johnson and Donald M Tucker

• Embodied Cognition (2nd. ed) by Lawrence Shapiro (BSP 73)

• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

• Previous episodes about Embodied Cognition

  • BSP 25 with Rolf Pfeifer, co-author of How the Body Shapes the Way We Think

  • BSP 36 with Arthur Glenberg

  • BSP 73 with Lawrence Shapiro, author of Embodied Cognition

  • BSP 89 with Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology. Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

  • BSP 94 with Benjamin Bergen, author of Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

• See the episode transcript for additional links and reference

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