The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition

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Since its inception some fifty years ago, cognitive science has undergone a number of sea changes. Perhaps the best known is the development of connectionist models of cognition as alternatives to classical, symbol-based approaches. A more recent – and increasingly influential – trend is that of dynamical-systems-based, ecologically oriented models of the mind. Researchers suggest that a full understanding of the mind will require systematic study of the dynamics of interaction among mind, body, and world. Some argue that this new orientation calls for a revolutionary new metaphysics of mind, according to which mental states and processes, and even persons, literally extend into the environment. The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition is a state-of-the-art guide to this new movement in cognitive science. Each chapter tackles either a specific area of empirical research or a specific sector of the conceptual foundations underlying this research. The chapter authors are leading figures in the emerging interdisciplinary field of situated cognition, including representatives from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. Philip Robbins received his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the University of Missouri, he taught at the University of Vermont and Washington University in St. Louis. Murat Aydede received his B.A. from Bogazic˘ ¸i University in Istanbul and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park. Before coming to the University of British Columbia, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Florida. Part I. Backdrop: 1. A short primer on situated cognition Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede; 2. Scientific antecedents of situated cognition William J. Clancey; 3. Philosophical antecedents of situated cognition Shaun Gallagher; Part II. Conceptual Foundations: 4. How to situate cognition: letting nature take its course Robert A. Wilson and Andy Clark; 5. Why the mind is still in the head Fred Adams and Kenneth Aizawa; 6. Innateness and the situated mind Robert Rupert; 7. Situated representation Mark Rowlands; 8. Dynamics, control, and cognition Chris Eliasmith; 9. Explanation: mechanism, modularity, and situated cognition William Bechtel; 10. Embedded rationality Ruth Millikan; Part III. Empirical Developments: 11. Situated perception and sensation in vision and other modalities: from an active to a sensorimotor account Erik Myin and Kevin O'Regan; 12. Spaces of thought Barbara Tversky; 13. Remembering John Sutton; 14. Situating concepts Lawrence W. Barsalou; 15. Problem-solving and situated cognition David Kirsh; 16. The dynamic interactions between situations and decisions Jerome R. Busemeyer, Ryan K. Jessup and Eric Dimperio; 17. Situating rationality: ecologically rational decision making with simple heuristics Henry Brighton and Peter M. Todd; 18. Situativity and learning R. Keith Sawyer and James G. Greeno; 19. Language in the brain, body, and world Rolf A. Zwaan and Michael P. Kaschak; 20. Language processing embodied and embedded Michael Spivey and Daniel Richardson; 21. Situated semantics Varol Akman; 22. Is consciousness embodied? Jesse J. Prinz; 23. Emotions in the wild: the situated perspective on emotion Paul Griffiths and Andrea Scarantino; 24. The social context of cognition Eliot R. Smith and Frederica R. Conrey; 25. Cognition for culture Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken; 26. Neuroethology: from morphological computation to planning Malcolm A. MacIver.