Adaptive Behavior
April 1, 2023
Jonathan Mckinney, Sune Vork Steffensen, Anthony Chemero
The Course-of-Experience Framework (CEF) represents a promising path forward for embodied and enactive approaches to cognitive science. It aims to provide a comprehensive explanation of representation-hungry activities by grounding cognition in practice. Practice is not merely something that we do as a means to an end, but is constitutive of cognition. Puzzlingly, however, the CEF begins to...
Cognitive Science
November 1, 2021
Luis H. Favela, Mary Jean Amon, Lorena Lobo et al.
We present an empirically supported theoretical and methodological framework for quantifying the system-level properties of person-plus-tool interactions in order to answer the question: "Are person-plus-tool-systems extended cognitive systems?" Nineteen participants provided perceptual judgments regarding their ability to pass through apertures of various widths while using visual information,...
Adaptive Behavior
February 1, 2020
Amanda Corris, Anthony Chemero
Villalobos and Razeto-Barry suggest that extended enactivist interpretations of the autopoietic theory do not adequately address the bodily dimensions of living beings. In reply, we suggest that the extended enactivist view provides a richer account of living beings than a theory confined to autopoiesis, and therefore should not be supplanted by a modified autopoietic theory.
September 13, 2018
Frank Faries, Anthony Chemero
24 citations
This chapter provides an introduction to dynamical systems theory, including its methods, central features, and the ways it is taken to conflict with computational theories. It resolves these conflicts, by showing that at least two points on which these theories are presumed to conflict need not be seen as conflicts. The chapter shows that, because computational and dynamical approaches are, at...
Synthese
February 12, 2018
Jelle P. Bruineberg, Anthony Chemero, Erik Rietveld
119 citations
In this paper, we address the question of how an agent can guide its behavior with respect to aspects of the sociomaterial environment that are not sensorily present. A simple example is how an animal can relate to a food source while only sensing a pheromone, or how an agent can relate to beer, while only the refrigerator is directly sensorily present. Certain cases in which something is...
Music & Science
2018
Dylan Van der Schyff, Andrea Schiavio, Ashley E. Walton et al.
121 citations
The phenomenon of creativity has received a growing amount of attention from scholars working across a range of disciplines. While this research has produced many important insights, it has also traditionally tended to explore creativity in terms of the reception of products or outcomes, conceiving of it as a cognitive process that is limited to the individual domain of the creative agent. More...
Topics in Cognitive Science
2012
Michael Silberstein, Anthony Chemero
The complex systems approach to cognitive science invites a new understanding of extended cognitive systems. According to this understanding, extended cognitive systems are heterogenous, composed of brain, body, and niche, non-linearly coupled to one another. This view of cognitive systems, as non-linearly coupled brain-body-niche systems, promises conceptual and methodological advances. In...
PLoS One
March 9, 2010
Dobromir G Dotov, Lin Nie, Anthony Chemero
The ideas of continental philosopher Martin Heidegger have been influential in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, despite the fact that there has been no effort to analyze these ideas empirically. The experiments reported here are designed to lend empirical support to Heidegger's phenomenology and more specifically his description of the transition between ready-to-hand and...