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| List of illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Cognition | |
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| Standard Cognitive Science | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Newell and Simon's General Problem Solver | |
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| Descriptive Frameworks | |
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| Back to General Problem Solver | |
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| Sternberg's Analysis of Memory Scanning | |
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| The Computational Vision Program | |
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| The Solipsistic View | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Challenging Standard Cognitive Science | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gibson's Ecological Theory of Perception | |
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| Structure in Light | |
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| The Brain's Role in Vision | |
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| Hatfield's Noncognitive Computationalism | |
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| The Connectionist Challenge | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Conceptions of Embodiment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Varela, Thompson, and Rosch: World Building | |
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| Thelen: Representation Lite | |
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| Clark: Thinking with the Body | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Embodied Cognition: The Conceptualization Hypothesis | |
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| Conceptualization | |
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| Linguistic Determinism | |
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| The Linguistic Determination of Time Conceptions | |
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| Sex With Syntax | |
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| Concepts and Conceptions | |
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| Testing Hypotheses | |
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| The Embodiment of Color | |
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| Embodiment and Metaphor | |
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| Putting Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptualization Thesis to the Test | |
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| Second-Generation Cognitive Science | |
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| The Symbol Grounding Problem | |
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| The Indexical Hypothesis | |
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| Perceptual Symbols | |
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| Affordances | |
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| Meshing | |
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| Experimental Evidence for the Indexical Hypothesis: The Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect | |
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| Assessing the Indexical Hypothesis | |
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| Meaningfulness in Amodal Representation | |
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| Sensibility Judgments | |
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| Standard Cognitive Science and the Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect | |
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| The Body in the Brain | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Embodied Cognition: The Replacement Hypothesis | |
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| Replacement | |
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| Dynamical Systems | |
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| Van Gelder's Dynamical Hypothesis | |
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| Explaining Watt's Centrifugal Governor | |
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| The Dynamics of Cognition | |
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| Categorical Perception from a Dynamical Perspective | |
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| Do Dynamical Explanations Explain? | |
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| Replacement and Robotics | |
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| The Case for Representational Skepticism | |
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| Are There Representations in the Centrifugal Governor? | |
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| The Argument for Representational Skepticism | |
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| The "They're Not Representations!" Argument against Representations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Embodied Cognition: The Constitution Hypothesis | |
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| Constitution | |
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| A Quick Refutation of Constitution? The Argument from Envatment | |
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| Sensorimotor Theories of Perceptual Experience | |
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| Constituents and Causes | |
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| More Than Just a Gesture? | |
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| Coupling and Constitution | |
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| Extending Cognition Further | |
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| The Coupling-Constitution Fallacy | |
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| A Parity Argument for Constitution | |
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| Against Parity-Meeting The Marks of the Cognitive | |
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| Mark I: Intrinsic Content | |
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| Mark II: Causal Processes | |
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| Extended v. Embedded Cognition | |
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| Whose Action is it Anyway? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Back to the Decision Tree | |
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| Conceptualization and Standard Cognitive Science | |
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| Replacement and Standard Cognitive Science | |
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| Constitution and Standard Cognitive Science | |
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| The Final(?) Score | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
