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9780804730334 Academic Inspection Copy

Ethical Know-How

Action, Wisdom, and Cognition
  • ISBN-13: 9780804730334
  • Publisher: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Francisco J. Varela
  • Price: AUD $46.99
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  • Local release date: 30/08/1999
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 277 pages Weight: 127g
  • Categories: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]
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How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious judgment but part of a habitual nexus of systematic self-organization; second, creating an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental self, a stable subject, or a soul. In earlier modes of cognitive science, cognition was conceptualized according to a model of representation and abstract reasoning. In the realm of ethics, this corresponded to the philosophical tenet that to do what is ethical is to do what corresponds to an abstract set of rules. By contrast to this computationalism, the author places central emphasis on what he terms enaction cognition as the ability to negotiate embodied, everyday living in a world that is inseparable from our sensory-motor capacities.
Francisco J. Varela is Director of Research at the French National Research Council and head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Psychophysiology at the Hospital of the Salpetriere, Paris. The most recent of his many books co-authored or co-edited in English is (with Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch) The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience.
Preface The first lecture: Know-How and Know What 2. The second lecture: On Ethical Expertise 3. The third lecture: The Embodiment of Emptiness Notes.
"Varela's work, in general, and this book, in particular, offer many enduring and insightful perspectives to scholars in the field of education and the complexiity sciences." - Complicitiy: An International Journal of Complexity and Education
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