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Home page for this Honours seminar course.
Semester 2, 2000. Mondays 2-4pm, W6A 720.

Link to Kenelm Digby and the Liquid Empire.

Assessment:
1. 5000-word essay on a topic agreed with me . Due date is Wednesday November 22.
2. Reading diary: between 1500 and 2500 words giving a survey and critical analysis of a selection of course material you’ve been reading. Due date Wednesday September 13.

Course Description
This course offers an introduction to current historical and philosophical approaches to the embodied mind, or to 'cognition in the wild'. Topics include body-image, memory, personal identity, dreams, and representations (mental and non-mental). We'll address these issues by reading in the overlap between three apparently disparate traditions: recent work on embodied and situated cognition in dynamical cognitive science; historical and cross-cultural analyses of bodies and minds in different times and places; and theories of complexity and embodiment in both French- and English-language philosophy of science and mind.

John Sutton
Dept of Philosophy
Macquarie University.

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Last updated 4 September 2000.