Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness (Jean Piaget Symposia Series)

by Willis Overton

"Developmental Perspective on Embodiment and Consciousness explores embodiment in two ways. First, embodiment is examined as a condition of and influencing the particular shape of psychological experience. This sense of embodiment reflects the effort to put the mind back into the body. Second, embodiment is examined as a reflective experience in the sense that the mind forms particular images about the body. This sense of embodiment reflects the effort to put the body into the mind. The book opens with a discussion of embodiment from a meta-theoretical perspective. Then the role of embodiment in grounding conceptual meaning is examined. The book concludes with an overview of the historical context of the mind-body dualism and a discussion of how the idea of embodiment transcends this dualism." Intended for researchers and advanced students in developmental, cognitive, and social psychology, neurosclence, philosophy, anthropology, biology, and sociology, this new book also serves as a reference for advanced courses on cognition and development.

Hardcover

First published September 1, 2007