The Mind, the Body and the World

The roots of cognitivism lie deep in the history of Western thought, and to develop a genuinely post-cognitivist psychology, this investigation goes back to presuppositions descended from Platonic/Cartesian assumptions and beliefs about the nature of thought.

Keywords: Cognitivism, psychology, cognitive psychology, Descartes, brain, computer, brain as computer, philosophy, philosophy of mind, embodiment, cognition, self-consciousness, imagination, language, symbols, ecological cognition, human-computer interaction