A growing body of evidence suggests that cognition is embodied and grounded. Abstract
concepts, though, remain a significant theoretical challenge. A number of researchers have …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

There has been a lot of recent interest in the way that language might enhance embodied
cognition. This interest is driven in large part by a growing body of evidence implicating the …

The etymology above (adapted from https://www. etymonline. com/word/cognition) shows
that the word “cognition” has its origins in classical terms relating to the concept of knowing …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

Perceptual systems respond to proximal stimuli by forming mental representations of distal
stimuli. A central goal for the philosophy of perception is to characterize the representations …

This essay proposes and defends a pluralistic theory of conceptual embodiment. Our
concepts are represented in at least two ways:(i) through sensorimotor simulations of our …

Most of us create and use a panoply of non-sentential representations throughout our
ordinary lives: we regularly use maps to navigate, charts to keep track of complex patterns of …