Fallible Heuristics and Evaluation of Research Traditions: The Case of Embodied Cognition
The most excellent Marcin Miłkowski. Cognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionheuristicsKen AizawaMarcin Miłkowski
The most excellent Marcin Miłkowski. Cognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionheuristicsKen AizawaMarcin Miłkowski
Due in the autumn. 4eCognitive sciencedaniel huttoEmbeddedembodiedenactiveExtended cognitionKen AizawaMark RowlandsPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallaghersituated cognitionTom Froese
Despite my (highly qualified) HEC commitments, I love reading people like Ken Aizawa (and Fred Adams) and others such as Rob Rupert who are really HEC’s best fiends. Yes, I said fiends (a nudge and a wink to Herzog’s superb documentary). These three are meticulous and fair critics, meticulous without ever resorting to point-scoring or being trivial.…
This from Froese, Gershenson, and Rosenblueth. The extended mind hypothesis has stimulated much interest in cognitive science. However, its core claim, i.e. that the process of cognition can extend beyond the brain via the body and into the environment, has been heavily criticized. A prominent critique of this claim holds that when some part of the…
Check out this new book I’ve just come across – Wiley’s lists, across disciplines, is certainly looking very strong these days. Also check out two colleagues’ excellent Wiley offerings – Ted Lewis’ Network Science and of course Ken Aizawa’s and Fred Adams’ The Bounds of Cognition. Agent-based modelCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityComputational SociologyExtended MindFred AdamsKen AizawaNetwork ScienceSimulationsocial epistemologySocial…