The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition

Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading for any student and scholar of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

Extensively revised and enlarged for this second edition, it comprises over forty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts:

Historical underpinnings
Perspectives on embodied cognition
Applied embodied cognition: perception, language, and reasoning
Applied embodied cognition: social and moral cognition and emotion
Applied embodied cognition: memory, attention, and group cognition
Meta-topics.

The early chapters of the Handbook cover empirical and philosophical foundations of embodied cognition, focusing on Gibsonian and phenomenological approaches. Subsequent chapters cover additional, important themes common to work in embodied cognition, including embedded, extended and enactive cognition as well as chapters on empirical research in perception, language, reasoning, social and moral cognition, emotion, consciousness, memory, and learning and development.

For the second edition many existing chapters have been revised and six new chapters added on: AI and robotics, predictive processing, second language learning, animal cognition, sport psychology and sense of self, brining the handbook fully up to date with current research and debate.