Idealization and external symbolic storage: The epistemic and technical dimensions of theoretic cognition

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 335-366

  Woelert, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Embodiment; Enculturation; Formalization; Genetic phenomenology; Idealization; Spatial cognition; Symbolic technology; Theoretic cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864401769     PISSN: 15687759     EISSN: 15728676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-011-9245-8     Document Type: Article

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