1st Edition
The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory
1. The Neurosociology of Auguste Comte 2. Subject, Object, Extension: Karl Marx and Distributed Cognition 3. The Ideal Brain: Reality, Concepts, and Expectation in Max Weber 4. Disciplined Cognition: Sense, Reason, and Morality in Émile Durkheim 5. The Body in Mind: Mead’s Embodied Cognition 6. Conclusion
Biography
Ryan McVeigh is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University, Orillia. His research highlights the tensions and congruencies between sociology and cognitive science, specifically by exploring how understandings of cognition grounded the production of classic social theory. He is currently Chair of the Cognitive Sociology research cluster with the Canadian Sociological Association.
'In this engaging and accessible book, Ryan McVeigh performs the great service of systematically connecting current cognitive science to the largely buried and forgotten cognitive thinking of the classical sociologists, and in doing so returns cognition to its central place in the sociological tradition.' - Stephen Turner, Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida, USA
