Eric:
I just picked up three books in order to learn more about Embodied
Cognition:
1. Embodied Cognition by Lawrence Shapiro
2. Where Mathematics Comes From by George Lakoff and Rafael E. Nunez
3. Philosophy In The Flesh by Lakoff and Mark Johnson
I came to these via Dr Lakoff's Moral Politics, then perusing his
Metaphors We Live By.
Will the 3 books above provide a basic understanding of Embodied
Cognition, even though
they appear to be oriented to Philosophy as opposed to psychology?
I read Dr Dennett's Consciousness Explained back in 1997 and came to
accept the
naturalistic world view - what you see is what there is; no mystical nor
supernatural
stuff.
Of the two links you provided, I found your post to be more clear on the
conflict in psychology
than the PsychScientists' post.
Thanks,
Steph T
On 11/12/2011 8:29 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
Doug, don't fret.
The answer to Jochen's question is "Yes, it is about friggin time we
get a good theory", and Andrew and Sabrina's blog is an excellent
source of ideas for improving psychology. Recently Andrew's blog has
been getting attention from other excellent professionals, including a
Scientific American author who is actively discussing Andrew's
previous post: "Embodied cognition is not what you think
<http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2011/11/embodied-cognition-is-not-what-you.html>".
(With more discussion here
<http://fixingpsychology.blogspot.com/2011/11/embodied-cognition.html>.)
Roger,
You are correct that it might seem like psychology should have other
things to worry about, but frankly the problems you mention (rampant
misuse of statistics and the rare forged data scandals) would be a lot
easier to deal with if we had a more unified theoretical base.
Eric
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 07:12 PM, *Douglas Roberts
<[email protected]>* wrote:
Oh, God. Here we go.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Jochen Fromm<[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick, Eric, what do you think, does Psychology need a theory?
>
>
http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2011/11/theory-and-why-its-time-psychology-got.html?m=1
> -J.
>
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