本书梳理、阐述和系统分析了国内外学术界对涉身认知的各种理解，进而对与涉身认知相关的哲学问题进行了较为深入的理论探究。其内容全面系统，涉及了认知科学研究纲领的发展历程、涉身认知的产生背景及其理论特征、涉身认知的现象学基础、涉身认知中的表征问题、涉身认知研究框架下的知觉、思维与社会认知等各种理论维度。本书利用了大量当代认科学及其哲学反思的新资料，对以涉身认知为代表的当代认知科学前沿给予了较为全面的探究，对推进国内认知科学哲学领域的研究具有重要的理论意义。

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary science to unlock the secret about human cognition，and it has the strategic position in the development of contemporary science and technology.From the perspective of cognitive science and cognitive practice，the representation-computation is the core research program which integrates the research of all the fields about cognitive science.From the perspective of cognitive philosophy and cognitive theory，the development has undergone the paradigm changes of Information Processing Cognition，Brain Connectionist Cognition and Embodied cognition.Embodied cognition is a new theoretic paradigm to interpret the human intelligence.Since the end of19th century，the exploration in the fields of psychology，biology and linguistics constitute the pre-history of embodied cognition theory.By the efforts of Hubert Dreyfus，George Lakoff，Rodney Brooks and Francisco Varela，embodied cognition has become a theoretic research paradigm of cognitive science which emphasizes on the roles of body and situation in human cognition.From the1990，embodied cognition has aroused the active responses of the Chinese cognitive science and its philosophy researchers.The epistemological turn in modern philosophy and its developments in contemporary is the philosophical background of the rise of embodied cognition.Specifically，embodied cognition is the Critique to theCartesianism epistemology of subject-object dichotomy thinking mode，and influenced actively by the epistemology of Phenomenology and modern trend of thought of Pragmatism.For embodied cognition concentrates more on the research of human natural intelligence that is subjective，experienced and situated，the issues of philosophical methodology，for example，the integration of the first personal perspective and the third personal perspective，experienced and positivist method，phenomenological institution and logical analysis，etc.，appear more directly and make the research method to human cognitive phenomena an subject in embodied cognition.Human intelligence can roughly be divided into online intelligence and offline intelligence，the former contains perception，imagination，consciousness and emotion etc.，which is experienced，pre-linguistic and unreflective，and the latter contains the language，thinking and some social cognition etc.，which is reflective，propositional and abstract.By the direction of anti- Cartesianism，embodied cognition research puts forwards the subjects of“perception is tightly linked to action”and“thinking is grounding in experience”，the former criticizes the view of isolated mind and its representational view of perception，establishes the basic role of brain，body and environment，the latter resolves the Dualism and the breakage of perception and thinking，grounds the abstract thinking into human experiences.However，in the research of online intelligence and offline intelligence，there are kinds of controversial explanations about the form and function of representation，body and situation.As the frontier of research to human intelligence and its function mechanism，embodied cognition has aroused the care of scientists and philosophers all over the world.As the human intelligence and cognitive phenomena is different to common physiologic and physical appearance，and the methods to research them are especially complex and systemic，so the metaphysics，epistemology and methodology in the philosophy should play a special role in the research of cognitive science.