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Balance

Paul Thagard

2022Columbia University Press eBooks22 citationsDOI

Abstract

Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. Bridging philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Balance shows how an unheralded concept’s many meanings illuminate the human condition.

Topics & Concepts

Balance (ability)PsychologyNeuroscienceEmbodied and Extended Cognition