The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition

Edited by

Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede

 

Cambridge University Press

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

 

Part I: Backdrop

 

Chapter 1

A Short Primer on Situated Cognition

Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede

 

Chapter 2

Scientific Antecedents of Situated Cognition

William J. Clancey

 

Chapter 3

Philosophical Antecedents of Situated Cognition

Shaun Gallagher

 

Part II: Conceptual Foundations

 

Chapter 4

How to Situate Cognition: Letting Nature Take Its Course

Robert A. Wilson and Andy Clark

 

Chapter 5

Why the Mind Is Still in the Head

Fred Adams and Kenneth Aizawa

 

Chapter 6

Innateness and the Situated Mind

Robert Rupert

 

Chapter 7

Situated Representation

Mark Rowlands

 

Chapter 8

Dynamics, Control, and Cognition

Chris Eliasmith

 

Chapter 9

Explanation: Mechanism, Modularity, and Situated Cognition

William Bechtel

 

Chapter 10

Embedded Rationality

Ruth Millikan

 

Part III: Empirical Developments

 

Chapter 11

Situated Perception and Sensation in Vision and Other Modalities: From an Active to a Sensorimotor Account

Erik Myin and Kevin O’Regan

 

Chapter 12

Spatial Cognition: Embodied and Situated

Barbara Tversky

 

Chapter 13

Remembering

John Sutton

 

Chapter 14

Situating Concepts

Lawrence W. Barsalou

 

Chapter 15

Problem-Solving and Situated Cognition

David Kirsh

 

Chapter 16

The Dynamic Interactions between Situations and Decisions

Jerome R. Busemeyer, Ryan K. Jessup, and Eric Dimperio

 

Chapter 17

Situating Rationality: Ecologically Rational Decision Making with Simple Heuristics

Henry Brighton and Peter M. Todd

 

Chapter 18

Situativity and Learning

R. Keith Sawyer and James G. Greeno

 

Chapter 19

Language in the Brain, Body, and World

Rolf A. Zwaan and Michael P. Kaschak

 

Chapter 20

Language Processing Embodied and Embedded

Michael Spivey and Daniel Richardson

 

Chapter 21

Situated Semantics

Varol Akman

 

Chapter 22

Is Consciousness Embodied?

Jesse J. Prinz

 

Chapter 23

Emotions in the Wild: The Situated Perspective on Emotion

Paul Griffiths and Andrea Scarantino

 

Chapter 24

The Social Context of Cognition

Eliot R. Smith and Frederica R. Conrey

 

Chapter 25

Cognition for Culture

Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken

 

Chapter 26

Neuroethology: From Morphological Computation to Planning

Malcolm A. MacIver

 

Acknowledgments

This volume has been a long time in the making, and we have gotten a lot of help from a lot of people. Accordingly, we have a long list of people to thank.

 

At the top of the list are our contributors, every one of whom did top-notch work for us. Among them, the four members of our advisory board -- Larry Barsalou, Bill Bechtel, David Kirsh, and Rob Wilson -- also assisted us with recruitment and other editorial matters. A number of other people, including several contributors, extended our editorial reach still further by reviewing individual chapters: Pascal Boyer, Philippe Chuard, Bill Clancey, Carl Craver, Chris Eliasmith, Shaun Gallagher, Kent Johnson, Hilary Kornblith, Alan Lambert, Edouard Machery, Eric Margolis, Pascale Michelon, Michael Wheeler, Wayne Wright, and Jeff Zacks. In the final phase, Chris Kahn came to our rescue by agreeing to format the entire manuscript for production, a task that he performed with admirable skill and care.

 

On the business end, Phil Laughlin, formerly of Cambridge University Press, encouraged us to take on the project and supervised its initial development. His assistant, Armi Macaballug, provided solid support throughout. After Phil left the Press, Eric Schwartz took over supervision of the project and saw it through the home stretch, assisted by Elizabeth Gryska and April Potenciano.

 

Finally, our nearest and dearest -- Sara and Judah, and Sema and Derya -- helped immeasurably by just being there.

 

Hearty thanks to all.

 

Philip Robbins

Murat Aydede

 

List of Contributors

 

[Asterisk '*' beside a name indicates member of the Editorial Advisory Board]

 

Fred Adams

Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science

University of Delaware

USA

 

Kenneth Aizawa

Department of Philosophy

Centenary College

USA

 

Varol Akman

Departments of Computer Engineering and Philosophy

Bilkent University

Turkey

 

Murat Aydede

Department of Philosophy

University of British Columbia

Canada

 

Lawrence W. Barsalou*

Department of Psychology

Emory University

USA

 

William Bechtel*

Department of Philosophy

University of California at San Diego

USA

 

Henry Brighton

Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Germany

 

Jerome R. Busemeyer

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

USA

 

William J. Clancey

NASA/Ames Research Center

USA

 

Andy Clark

Department of Philosophy

University of Edinburgh

Scotland

 

Frederica R. Conrey

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

USA

 

Eric Dimperio

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

USA

 

Chris Eliasmith

Departments of Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering

University of Waterloo

Canada

 

Shaun Gallagher

Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences Program

University of Central Florida

USA

 

James G. Greeno

School of Education

University of Pittsburgh

USA

 

Paul Griffiths

School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry

University of Sydney

Australia

 

Ryan K. Jessup

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

USA

 

Michael P. Kaschak

Department of Psychology

Florida State University

USA

 

David Kirsh*

Department of Cognitive Science

University of California at San Diego

USA

 

Malcolm MacIver

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Northwestern University

USA

 

Ruth Millikan

Department of Philosophy

University of Connecticut

USA

 

Erik Myin

Department of Philosophy

University of Antwerp

Belgium

 

Kevin O’Regan

Laboratory of Experimental Psychology

Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

University of Paris 5

France

 

Jesse J. Prinz

Department of Philosophy

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

USA

 

Daniel Richardson

Department of Psychology

University of Reading

England

 

Philip Robbins

Department of Philosophy

University of Missouri at Columbia

USA

 

Mark Rowlands

Department of Philosophy

University of Miami

USA

 

Robert Rupert

Department of Philosophy

University of Colorado at Boulder

USA

 

R. Keith Sawyer

Department of Education

Washington University in St. Louis

USA

 

Andrea Scarantino

Department of Philosophy

Georgia State University

USA

 

Eliot R. Smith

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

USA

 

Michael Spivey

Department of Psychology

Cornell University

USA

 

John Sutton

Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science

Macquarie University

Australia

 

Peter M. Todd

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

USA

 

Michael Tomasello

Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Germany

 

Barbara Tversky

Department of Psychology

Stanford University

USA

 

Felix Warneken

Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Germany

 

Robert A. Wilson*

Department of Philosophy

University of Alberta

Canada

 

Rolf A. Zwaan

Department of Biological and Cognitive Psychology

Erasmus University

The Netherlands