Abstract

Anthony Chemero’s Radical Embodied Cognitive Science is obviously boldly entitled. It has bold goals, and cuts across an impressive range of topics. It is filled with diverse interweaving threads — topics of interest to the full disciplinary range of the cognitive sciences, from psychology to philosophy. For example, any cognitive scientist interested in a basic summary of philosophical theories of representation would find Chapter 3 invaluable, as it is one of the clearest reviews of this conceptually challenging area that I know of. As another example, Chemero draws out the consequences of the radical embodied approach for the philosophy of mind, a rare agenda . Its inclusion of both conceptually challenging philosophical theories, along with technically sophisticated empirical review , makes the book a cognitive science book par excellence