Overview
- Provides an insight into the contemporary state of sensorimotor theories and their place in modern cognitive science
- Offers an interesting selection of current research informed by the sensorimotor account of perception
- Edited and written by leading experts in the field
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 15)
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Table of contents (16 papers)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyzes the philosophical foundations of sensorimotor theory and discusses the most recent applications of sensorimotor theory to human computer interaction, child’s play, virtual reality, robotics, and linguistics.
Why does a circle look curved and not angular? Why does red not sound like a bell? Why, as I interact with the world, is there something it is like to be me? An analytic philosopher might suggest: ``if we ponder the concept of circle we find that it is the essence of a circle to be round’’. However, where does this definition come from? Was it set in stone by the Gods, in other words by divine arbiters of circleness, redness and consciousness? Particularly, with regard to visual consciousness, a first attempt to explain why our conscious experience of the world appears as it does has been attributed to Kevin O’Regan and Alva Noe, who published their sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness in 2001.
Starting with a chapter by Kevin O’Regan, Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory continues by presenting fifteen additional essays on as many developments achieved in recent years in this field. It provides readers with a critical review of the sensorimotor theory and in so doing introduces them to a radically new enactive approach in cognitive science.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John Mark Bishop is currently Professor of Cognitive Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London and Chair of AISB (Society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour).
Andrew Owen Martin completed his MSc in Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2011. He is currently PhD.C. in the same university. His research focuses on sensory substitution and enactivism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory
Editors: John Mark Bishop, Andrew Owen Martin
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05106-2Published: 21 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37546-5Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05107-9Published: 08 February 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 253
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Phenomenology, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology