Name: Origins of Mind
ISBN: 978-94-007-5419-5

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Liz Swan
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Highly multidisciplinary collection of essays on mind
The first biosemiotic collection devoted entirely to mind
Many chapters contain extensive lists of references that constitute suggestions for further reading
Several chapters are written by early career mind scientists and provide cutting edge thinking on mind

Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 8)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

Front Matter

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Introduction: Exploring the Origins of Mindedness in Nature
- Liz Swan
Pages 1-17
Biosemiotics
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 19-19
  
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BIOSEMIOTICS
1. Organic Codes and the Natural History of Mind
  
  Marcello Barbieri
  
  Pages 21-52
2. The Descent of Humanity: The Biological Roots of Human Consciousness, Culture and History
  
  Angelo N. M. Recchia-Luciani
  
  Pages 53-84
3. From Non-minds to Minds: Biosemantics and the Tertium Quid
  
  Crystal L’Hôte
  
  Pages 85-95
4. Cybersemiotics: A New Foundation for a Transdisciplinary Theory of Consciousness, Cognition, Meaning and Communication
  
  Soren Brier
  
  Pages 97-126
Mental Representation
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 127-127
  
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MENTAL REPRESENTATION
1. The Emergence of Empathy in the Context of Cross-Species Mind Reading
  
  John Sarnecki
  
  Pages 129-142
2. The Evolution of Scenario Visualization and the Early Hominin Mind
  
  Robert Arp
  
  Pages 143-159
3. Representation in Biological Systems: Teleofunction, Etiology, and Structural Preservation
  
  Michael Nair-Collins
  
  Pages 161-185
4. Beyond Embodiment: From Internal Representation of Action to Symbolic Processes
  
  Isabel Barahona da Fonseca, Jose Barahona da Fonseca, Vitor Pereira
  
  Pages 187-199
Consciousness
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 201-201
  
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CONSCIOUSNESS
1. Imitation, Skill Learning, and Conceptual Thought: An Embodied, Developmental Approach
  
  Ellen Fridland
  
  Pages 203-224
2. Evolving Consciousness: The Very Idea!
  
  James H. Fetzer
  
  Pages 225-242
3. Mind or Mechanism: Which Came First?
  
  Teed Rockwell
  
  Pages 243-258
4. Origins of the Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness: Evolutionary Answers to Chalmers’ Hard Problem
  
  Jonathan Y. Tsou
  
  Pages 259-269
Philosophy of Mind
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 271-271
  
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PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
1. Neuropragmatism on the Origins of Conscious Minding
  
  Tibor Solymosi
  
  Pages 273-287
2. Not So Exceptional: Away from Chomskian Saltationism and Towards a Naturally Gradual Account of Mindfulness
  
  Andrew M. Winters, Alex Levine
  
  Pages 289-299

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The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in microbiology and embryology. What philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists can contribute to the growing interdiscipline are insights into how the biosemiotic weltanschauung applies to complex organisms like humans where such signs and sign processes constitute human society and culture.

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“The chapters provide one of the best explorations of mind-as-process in an age where only empirical phenomena exist, i.e., where there are no extra-empirical things (naturalism). This wide-ranging exploration of an increasingly influential approach to understanding the meaning of ‘mind’ will interest philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (R. Paul Thompson, Choice, Vol. 50 (11), August, 2013)

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Longmont, USA

Liz Swan

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Origins of Mind
Editors: Liz Swan
Series Title: Biosemiotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5419-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5418-8Published: 22 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9505-1Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5419-5Published: 22 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1875-4651
Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 420
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Nature, Biological Psychology, Anthropology, Simulation and Modeling

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

Front Matter

Biosemiotics

Front Matter

BIOSEMIOTICS

Mental Representation

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MENTAL REPRESENTATION

Consciousness

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CONSCIOUSNESS

Philosophy of Mind

Front Matter

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

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Longmont, USA

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