{"product_id":"mind-in-nature-isbn-9780262545167","title":"Mind in Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dialogue between contemporary neuroscience and John Dewey’s seminal philosophical work Experience and Nature, exploring how the bodily roots of human meaning, selfhood, and values provide wisdom for living.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe intersection of cognitive science and pragmatist philosophy reveals the bodily basis of human meaning, thought, selfhood, and values. John Dewey's revolutionary account of pragmatist philosophy \u003ci\u003eExperience and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (1925) explores humans as complex social animals, developing through ongoing engagement with their physical, interpersonal, and cultural environments. Drawing on recent research in biology and neuroscience that supports, extends, and, on occasion, reformulates some of Dewey's seminal insights, embodied cognition expert Mark L. Johnson and behavioral neuroscientist Jay Schulkin develop the most expansive intertwining of Dewey's philosophy with biology and neuroscience to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a positive, life-affirming understanding of how our evolutionary and individual development shapes who we are, what we can know, where our deepest values come from, and how we can cultivate wisdom for a meaningful and intelligent life.Preface xi\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Philosophy, Naturally 1\u003cbr\u003e2 It All Starts with Experience 11\u003cbr\u003e3 The Naturalized Metaphysics of Emerging Mind 31\u003cbr\u003e4 Meaning and Thought 49\u003cbr\u003e5 Consciousness Wakes Up in Mind 75\u003cbr\u003e6 Knowing as Transformative Action 99\u003cbr\u003e7 The Making of a Self 121\u003cbr\u003e8 The Aesthetics of Life and Mind 149\u003cbr\u003e9 Philosophy Naturalized 181\u003cbr\u003e10 Living with Naturalism 207\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 235\u003cbr\u003eReferences 237\u003cbr\u003eIndex 263“Can naturalism explain the transformative aspect of our lives? \u003ci\u003eMind in Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a striking answer through a powerful update, in light of cognitive neuroscience, of pragmatist insights into the embodiment of human experience.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eItalo Testa, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Parma\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Johnson and Schulkin’s book beautifully fills the gap on the enduring originality of John Dewey’s naturalism, showing us what we can gain from Dewey when inquiring about knowledge, the self, habits, values, meaning or consciousness.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePierre Steiner, Professor of Philosophy, Université de Technologie de Compiègne\/Sorbonne Université\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Johnson and Schulkin present a nondelusional naturalistic philosophy of animals who may indeed strut and fret their hour upon the stage, as Macbeth despaired, but whose lives are far more meaningful, purposeful, and value-rich than mere tales ‘told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSteven Fesmire, author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Dewey and Moral Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e; editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Dewey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMark L. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is a developer of embodied cognition theory, focusing on the philosophical implications of human embodiment for meaning, conceptualization, reasoning, values, and knowing. He has written multiple books on cognitive science and embodiment, including most recently \u003ci\u003eOut of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2021). Jay Schulkin is Research Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Washington. Many of his previous books in neuroscience and philosophy integrate a pragmatist and evolutionary perspective with contemporary cognitive and neural science. He has published two previous books with the MIT Press, \u003ci\u003eRoots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eRethinking Homeostasis\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302282252517,"sku":"NP9780262545167","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545167.jpg?v=1767732711","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mind-in-nature-isbn-9780262545167","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}