The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition

Philip Robbins, Murat Aydede

Cambridge University Press, 2009 - Philosophy - 520 pages

Conté: Backdrop -- A short primer on situated cognition / Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede -- Scientific antecedents of situated cognition / William J. Clancey -- Philosophical antecedents of situated cognition / Shaun Gallagher -- Conceptual foundations -- How to situate cognition : letting nature take its course / Robert A. Wilson and Andy Clark -- Why the mind is still in the head / Fred Adams and Kenneth Aizawa -- Innateness and the situated mind / Robert Rupert -- Situated representation / Mark Rowlands -- Dynamics, control, and cognition / Chris Eliasmith -- Explanation : mechanism, modularity, and situated cognition / William Bechtel -- Embedded rationality / Ruth Millikan -- Empirical developments -- Situated perception and sensation in vision and other modalities : from an active to a sensorimotor account / Erik Myin and Kevin O'Regan -- Spatial cognition : embodied and situated / Barbara Tversky -- Remembering / John Sutton -- Situating concepts / Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Problem-solving and situated cognition / David Kirsh -- The dynamic interactions between situations and decisions / Jerome R. Busemeyer, Ryan K. Jessup, and Eric Dimperio -- Situating rationality : ecologically rational decision making with simple heuristics / Henry Brighton and Peter M. Todd -- Situativity and learning / R. Keith Sawyer and James G. Greeno -- Language in the brain, body, and world / Rolf A. Zwaan and Michael P. Kaschak -- Language processing embodied and embedded / Michael Spivey and Daniel Richardson -- Situated semantics / Varol Akman -- Is consciousness embodied? / Jesse J. Prinz -- Emotions in the wild : the situated perspective on emotion / Paul Griffiths and Andrea Scarantino -- The social context of cognition / Eliot R. Smith and Frederica R. Conrey -- Cognition for culture / Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken -- Neuroethology : from morphological computation to planning / Malcolm A. MacIver.

About the author

Philip Robbins received his BA from Harvard University and his PhD 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 BA from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and his PhD 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition; Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
• Editors: Philip Robbins, Murat Aydede
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0521848326, 9780521848329
• Length: 520 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Mind & Body; Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition