The Ontology of Ecological Cognition (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project.More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on cognition. The book’s main argument is that ecological/embodied cognition is embedded in various philosophical traditions.It establishes that there is a lack of clarity in how we conceptualize locative relations in contexts having to do with cognition.The book tackles questions of what it means that internal representations are internal, that the external world is external, that the extended mind is extended, how we should understand the claim that cognition and consciousness are in the head, or, alternatively, in the environment.Additionally, it addresses what it means that cognition enacts an environment, which is likely the most controversial claim made in some branches of embodied cognitio