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The Body in Mind: Mead's Embodied Cognition
Author(s) -
McVeigh Ryan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1002/symb.476
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , cognition , psychology , relevance (law) , mind–body problem , perception , dyad , cognitive science , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , neuroscience , political science , law
This article highlights the role played by the body in the work of George Herbert Mead. For Mead, the social emergence of mind depends on human physiology. This is revealed through a detailed exploration of three thematic domains in his work: the organism–environment dyad, perception, and the manipulatory stage of the act. From this, I argue that Mead saw the body as constitutive of cognition and central to the development of mind and self. Present‐day research supports this view and demonstrates Mead's relevance for understanding embodied cognition.