Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Towards a Philosophy of Knowledge
We wanted to start with what we took to be a kind of common myth, what we called a disembodied mind. And so in an following dewe, we argue that an organism and environment ina has a needs. And the needs and the motivatial system create search in the environment,. n in search of satisfaction. A that need search satisfaction, structure we're claiming as pervasive in in animal species. So i think if we looked at our natural philosophy, another way to describe that is an anatomically correct philosophy where the human brain and its foundations in sub cortical arousal systems, limbic emotional systems. This is the tool kit that we have to organize concepts and decisions and ajud
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