Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program at Washington
University.
Review
"Clark's book is an excellent introduction to this new movement in cognitive science. It is clear, wide
ranging, well informed, and full of fascinating examples. And, unusually, it manages to be both eminently sensible
and highly provocative."
-- Margaret A. Boden, Nature
Bradford Book Web Site, March, 2000
Summary
Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity.
In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational
questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to make sense of the emerging sciences of the embodied
mind. Clark brings together ideas and techniques from robotics, neuroscience, infant psychology, and artificial
intelligence. He addresses a broad range of adaptive behaviors, from cockroach locomotion to the role of linguistic
artifacts in higher-level thought.