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Author Maiese, Dr Michelle

Title Embodiment, Emotion, and Cognition
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; 1 The Essential Embodiment Thesis; 2 Essentially Embodied, Desire-Based Emotions; 3 Sense of Self, Embodiment, and Desire-Based Emotions; 4 The Role of Emotion in Decision and Moral Evaluation; 5 Essentially Embodied, Emotive, Enactive Social Cognition; 6 Breakdowns in Embodied Emotive Cognition; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Beginning with the view that human consciousness is essentially embodied and that the way we consciously experience the world is structured by our bodily dynamics and surroundings, the book argues that emotions are a fundamental manifestation of our embodiment, and play a crucial role in self-consciousness, moral evaluation, and social cognition
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Subject Emotions.
Mind and body.
Cognition.
Cognition
cognition.
Psychiatry.
Cognition & cognitive psychology.
Health and Fitness.
Cognition
Emotions
Mind and body
Psychiatry.
Cognition & cognitive psychology.
History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.
Health and Wellbeing.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230297715
0230297714
1282999044
9781282999046