Embodied Cognition, Character Formation, and Virtue: with Fraser Watts, “Embodied Cognition and Religion”; John A. Teske, “From Embodied to Extended Cognition”; Daniel H. Weiss, “Embodied Cognition in Classical Rabbinic Literature”; Léon Turner, “Individuality in Theological Anthropology and Theories of Embodied Cognition”; and Warren S. Brown and Kevin S. Reimer, “Embodied Cognition, Character Formation, and Virtue.”

The theory of embodied cognition makes the claim that our cognitive processes are, at their core, sensorimotor, situated, and action-relevant. Our mental system is built primarily to control action, and so mind is formed by the nature of the body and its interactions with the world. In this paper we...

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Authors: Brown, Warren S. (Author) ; Reimer, Kevin S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
In: Zygon
Year: 2013, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 832-845
Further subjects:B complex systems
B Virtue
B Embodied Cognition
B character formation
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