Rafael Núñez & Walter J. Freeman, Editors
 
For hundreds of years people have assumed that body and mind are two separate things. That view is now being challenged left, right, and center, with a welter of "holistic" remedies and approaches in every aspect of life. The old idea was that the body--including the brain--is just a machine in which our minds or souls live as a ghostly presence. This has led to the idea that the brain is just a computer, and the "mind" no more than a program that runs on it. It has turned thinking (cognition) into something for computers rather than humans. It has resulted in Artificial Intelligence and the "cognitive science" that lies behind it. The writers in Reclaiming Cognition will have none of this. They insist on treating the thinking person as an embodied whole. The contributors--some twenty of them--come from all disciplines, from philosopher Andy Clark to biologist Brian Goodwin. This collection hits firmly on the head any idea that the computer model of the brain is the only one in town.
 
· ISBN 0-907845-55-X · Published February 2000 by Imprint Academic · Paperback · 320 pages · $29.90

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