title: The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology (Bradford Books)
author:  Mark Rowlands 
description: <P>In <I>The New Science of the Mind</I>, Mark Rowlands sets out an exciting combination of embodied and extended cognition which he calls the amalgamated mind. Rowlands convincingly argues that the new science of the mind will concern itself with explaining mental processes as amalgamations of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. This book stakes out important new territory and is sure to have a major impact on the future of the field.</P> (Richard Menary, The University of Wollongong)<br /><br /><P>Mark Rowlands insightfully draws from resources in both early analytic philosophy and phenomenology to defend recent conceptions of embodied and extended cognition. He presents convincing arguments to show that, at its core, intentionality involves a transcendental disclosure of the world, and then remarkably shows that the transcendental is characteristic of a mind that is an amalgamation of brain, body, and environment. He thus lays out a brilliant strategy to defeat all of the neurocentric naysayers with respect to the extended -- or, in Rowland's terms, the amalgamate -- mind.</P> (Shaun Gallagher, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, University of Central Florida and University of Hertfordshire)<br /><br /><P>Those who ask whether mental processes can extend beyond the brain and into the world may seem to be asking, 'Where is my mind?' Mark Rowlands instead replaces questions about the location of cognition with a process-based vision of the mind as a complex set of activities distributed across brain, body, and world. His integrative and original book demonstrates that the cognitive sciences already treat mental processes as amalgamations of disparate neural, bodily, and environmental resources. It brings a new level of precision to the case for the extended mind.</P> (John Sutton, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University)
zlib_text: The Phenomenological Mind
  The Phenomenological Mind is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions 
  about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered 
  include:
  • what is phenomenology?
  • naturalizing phenomenology and the cognitive sciences
  • phenomenology and consciousness
  • consciousness and self-consciousness
  • time and consciousness
  • intentionality
  • the embodied mind
  • action
  • knowledge of other minds
  • situated and extended minds
  • phenomenology and personal identity.
  This second edition includes a new preface, and revised and improved chapters.
  Also included are helpful features such as chapter summaries, guides to further reading, 
  and a glossary, making The Phenomenological Mind an ideal introduction to key concepts in 
  phenomenology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind.
  Shaun Gallagher holds the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at 
  the University of Memphis. His secondary appointments include 