Transform your child into a science project with these fun, simple experiments. Re-create landmark studies in child development in your own home and watch your little one achieve developmental milestones in real time with this fascinating hands-on guide. Whether your child is just beginning to speak in sentences or is on their way to kindergarten, these easy and surprising projects will help you to see the world through your child's eyes--and also give you the tools to help them master new skills as they grow. Covering ages two through five, the experiments reveal research-backed insights about different areas of mental, physical, and social growth. Some examples include- Understanding language syntax Learning to pick up the rules of a game without being told Developing the impulse to lie Testing memory For any parent who looks at their young child and thinks, "What on earth is going on in there?" this book will help you find out!

Experimenting With Kids: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Child Ages 2-5

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gallagher, Shaun

Psychology & Counseling

TarcherPerigee

Action and Interaction

Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in order to understand humanagency and the aspects of mind that are associated with it, we need to grasp the crucial role of context or circumstance in action, and the normative constraints of social and cultural practices. He also investigates issues concerning social cognition and embodied intersubjective interaction,including direct social perception and the role of narrative and communicative practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. Gallagher thereby brings together embodied and enactive approaches to action for the first time in this book and, in developing an alternative to standard conceptions ofunderstanding others, he bridges social cognition and critical social theory, drawing out the implications for recognition, autonomy, and justice.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and intersubjectivity. Gallagher argues for a rethinking of the concept of mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive science. Enactivism is presented as a philosophy of nature that has significant methodological and theoretical implications for the scientific investigation of the mind. Gallagher argues that, like the basic phenomena of perception and action, sophisticated cognitive phenomena like reflection, imagining, and mathematical reasoning are best explained in terms of an affordance-based skilled coping. He offers an account of the continuity that runs between basic action, affectivity, and a rationality that in every case remains embodied. Gallagher's analysis also addresses recent predictive models of brain function and outlines an alternative, enactivist interpretation that emphasizes the close coupling of brain, body and environment rather than a strong boundary that isolates the brain in its internal processes. The extensive relational dynamics that integrates the brain with the extra-neural body opens into an environment that is physical, social and cultural and that recycles back into the enactive process. Cognitive processes are in-the-world rather than in-the-head; they are situated in affordance spaces defined across evolutionary, developmental and individual histories, and are constrained by affective processes and normative dimensions of social and cultural practices.

Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind

Product Description 
Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in order to understand human 
agency and the aspects of mind that are associated with it, we need to grasp the crucial role of context or circumstance in action, and the normative constraints of social and cultural practices. He also investigates issues concerning social cognition and embodied intersubjective interaction, 
including direct social perception and the role of narrative and communicative practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. Gallagher thereby brings together embodied and enactive approaches to action for the first time in this book and, in developing an alternative to standard conceptions of 
understanding others, he bridges social cognition and critical social theory, drawing out the implications for recognition, autonomy, and justice.\nReview 
"...a comprehensive outline of the interactive theory of action. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- J. C. Swindal, 
CHOICE\n"From contemporary analytic philosophy of mind to questions of justice in the context of critical social theory, there is something for everybody." -- Fabio Tollon, 
Metapsychology Online Reviews\nAbout the Author 
Shaun Gallagher, 
University of Memphis\nShaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong. He has held visiting positions in Cambridge, Copenhagen, Paris, Lyon, Berlin, Oxford, and Rome. His research areas include 
phenomenology and philosophy of mind, embodied cognition, theories of self, intersubjectivity, and social cognition. Gallagher held the Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier Research Award (2012-18). He is a founding editor and co-editor-in-chief of the journal 
Phenomenology and the Cognitive\nSciences. His previous publications include 
How the Body Shapes the Mind (Oxford 2005), 
The Phenomenological Mind (Routledge 2012), and 
Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (Oxford 2017).

How the Body Shapes the Mind

How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these disciplines that the contribution of embodiment to cognition is inescapable. Because this insight has been developed across a variety of disciplines, however, there is still a need to develop a common vocabulary that is capable of integrating discussions of brain mechanisms in neuroscience, behavioral expressions in psychology, design concerns in artificial intelligence and robotics, and debates about embodied experience in the phenomenology and philosophy of mind. Shaun Gallagher's book aims to contribute to the formulation of that common vocabulary and to develop a conceptual framework that will avoid both the overly reductionistic approaches that explain everything in terms of bottom-up neuronal mechanisms, and inflationistic approaches that explain everything in terms of Cartesian, top-down cognitive states. Gallagher pursues two basic sets of questions. The first set consists of questions about the phenomenal aspects of the structure of experience, and specifically the relatively regular and constant features that we find in the content of our experience. If throughout conscious experience there is a constant reference to one's own body, even if this is a recessive or marginal awareness, then that reference constitutes a structural feature of the phenomenal field of consciousness, part of a framework that is likely to determine or influence all other aspects of experience. The second set of questions concerns aspects of the structure of experience that are more hidden, those that may be more difficult to get at because they happen before we know it. They do not normally enter into the content of experience in an explicit way, and are often inaccessible to reflective consciousness. To what extent, and in what ways, are consciousness and cognitive processes, which include experiences related to perception, memory, imagination, belief, judgment, and so forth, shaped or structured by the fact that they are embodied in this way?

Clarendon Press

Phenomenology (Palgrave Philosophy Today)

Shaun Gallagher offers an exciting contemporary perspective of the subject by retrieving many important insights made by the classic phenomenological philosophers, updating some of these insights in innovative ways, and showing how they directly relate to ongoing debates in philosophy and psychology.

History

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Phenomenological Mind

The Phenomenological Mind, Third Editionintroduces fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. One of the outstanding books in the field, now translated into eight languages, this highly regarded exploration of phenomenology from a topic-driven standpoint examines the following key questions and issues: <ul> <li>what is phenomenology?</li> <li>phenomenology and the cognitive sciences</li> <li>consciousness and self-consciousness</li> <li>time and consciousness</li> <li>intentionality and perception</li> <li>the embodied mind</li> <li>action</li> <li>knowledge of other minds</li> <li>situated and extended minds</li> <li>phenomenology and personal identity.</li> </ul> This third edition has been revised and updated throughout. The chapter on phenomenological methodologies has been significantly expanded to cover qualitative research and there are new sections discussing important, recent research on topics including phenomenology and emotion, social cognition, race and gender, collective intentionality and selfhood. Also included are helpful features such as chapter summaries, guides to further reading, and a glossary, making The Phenomenological Mind, Third Edition anideal introduction to key concepts in phenomenology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind.

Zahavi, Dan

Routledge

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Experimenting With Kids: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Child Ages 2-5

Action and Interaction

Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind

Action and Interaction

Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind

How the Body Shapes the Mind

How the Body Shapes the Mind

Phenomenology (Palgrave Philosophy Today)

Phenomenology (Palgrave Philosophy Today)

The Phenomenological Mind