Frederick Adams, Kenneth Aizawa

The Bounds of Cognition

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Produktbeschreibung

One is naturally inclined to say the tools that surround us--everything from paper and pencils to computers, clothing, and keys--complement our cognitive processing. That is common sense. The Bounds of Cognition articulates and defends a theory of "the mark of the cognitive," a common sense approach to cognitive science that differentiates between cognitive and non-cognitive processes. Addressing the limits of the embodied mind, the mark of the cognitive is a refreshing alternative approach to "extended cognition" whose advocates--including a growing number of leading philosophers and psychologists--argue that cognitive processing is not "brain bound," and the mind extends beyond the boundary of the brain and body. Putting their theory of the cognitive into practice, the authors analyze and expose some of the fallacies and shortcomings of extended cognition literature. The Bounds of Cognition is a timely and relevant text that exposes the need to develop a more sophisticated theory of cognition while allowing flexibility in exploring the nature of cognition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781444332704
• ISBN-10: 1444332708
• Artikelnr.: 28098857

Autorenporträt

Fred Adams is Professor of Cognitive Science and Philosophy at the University of Delaware. His interests include research on knowledge, language, intentional action, memory, and ethics. He authored the book The Bounds of Cognition in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xii
1 Introduction 1
2 Refining the Issues 16
2.1 What are the Boundaries? 16
2.2 What is Cognition? 22
2.3 The Possibility of Extended Cognition 25
2.4 Conclusion 29
3 Original Content 31
3.1 Part of the Mark of the Cognitive: Non-Derived Content 32
3.2 The Basics on Derived and Underived Content 35
3.3 Dennett's Critique of Original Content 39
3.4 Clark's Critique of Original Content 46
3.5 Anti-Representationalism in Dynamical Systems and Mobile Robotics 51
3.6 Conclusion 55
4 Cognitive Processes 57
4.1 Individuating Process Types in Science 58
4.2 Individuating Processes in Cognitive Psychology 60
4.3 A Broader Category of Cognition 70
4.4 Conclusion 74
5 The Mark of the Cognitive, Extended Cognition Style 76
5.1 Cognition as Information Processing, as Computation, and as Abiding in
the Meaningful 76
5.2 Operationalism 79
5.3 Is This Merely a Terminological Issue? 83
5.4 Conclusion 85
6 The Coupling-Constitution Fallacy 88
6.1 Some Examples of the Coupling-Constitution Fallacy 93
6.2 Replies to the Coupling-Constitution Fallacy 99
6.3 Conclusion 105
7 Extended Cognitive Systems and Extended Cognitive Processes 106
7.1 Dynamical Systems Theory and Coupling 107
7.2 Haugeland's Theory of Systems and the Coupling of Components 112
7.3 Clark's Theories of Systems and Coupling 119
7.4 Conclusion 130
8 Cognitive Equivalence, Complementarity, and Evolution 133
8.1 Cognitive Equivalence 133
8.2 The Complementarity Argument 143
8.3 Evolutionary Arguments 147
8.4 Conclusion: The Importance of the Mark of the Cognitive 150
9 Inference to the Best Explanation and Extended Cognition 152
9.1 What is the Theory of Enactive Perception? 153
9.2 Noë's Evidence for Enactive Perception 156
9.3 The Case against Enactive Perception: Paralysis 166
9.4 Conclusion 172
10 Future Directions 174
Bibliography 180
Index 187

Rezensionen

"Where is human cognition located? Is human cognitive processingliterally constituted (at least partly) by non-neural portions ofthe environment? The contemporary debate about extended cognitionand the extended mind focuses on these questions, among others.Frederick Adams and Kenneth Aizawa's new book, The Bounds ofCognition (BC), contributes wonderfully to this debate. The book iscritical of the extended approach; but Adams and Aizawa (A&A)also work toward a positive view, one that allows, in principle,for extended cognition, while yielding very little of it when fedthe empirical facts."(Philosophical Psychology, November2010)

"The Bounds of Cognition is the most thorough-going,forceful, and compelling critique of EMH so far." (Erkenntnis, September 2009)

"[This book] is without question a worthy and timely challengeto extended cognition, as well as to areas in related enterprisessuch as embodied cognition, situated cognition, dynamical systemstheory and artificial life.... I recommend the book highly toanyone interested in these issues." (Phenomenology and theCognitive Sciences, June 2009)

"This is a well written, well argued book. Written byphilosophers mainly for philosophers.... It makes a seriouscontribution to the extended cognition debate that anyone with aserious interest in the issue needs to study." (Journal ofConsciousness Studies, January 2009)

"Advocates of EMT must undoubtedly examine the arguments andcriticisms that Adams and Aizawa offer in careful detail, becauseThe Bounds of Cognition is the most forceful and mostconvincing criticism of their position so far."(Metapsychology, October 2008)

"The [authors] wrote this book as a reasoned challenge... .[It] offers an excellent overview of the promise, limits,and problems of bounded cognition. Recommended."(Choice)

"Adams and Aizawa have written a book that is going to leave morethan a few researchers in the burgeoning field of embodiedcognition scratching their heads and wondering how they could havesaid those things. In a detailed study, Adams and Aizawa questionthe very foundations of embodied cognition while on the wayelaborating a series of challenges that those who wish to continuein the pursuit of embodied cognition must first address."
-Lawrence A. Shapiro, University of Wisconsin

"Adams and Aizawa provide a timely and important critique of anemerging set of views and arguments often referred to as the'extended mind.' Anyone interested in the current stateof arguments about the extended mind and the future direction ofcognitive science will want to read this book. I look forward toresponding to the arguments."
-Richard Menary, The University of Wollongong, Australia