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Adams F. & Aizawa K. (2009) Why the mind is still in the head. In: Robbins P. & Aydede M. (eds.) The Cambridge handbook of situated cognition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 78–95.
Adams F.
&
Aizawa K.
(
2009
)
Why the mind is still in the head.
In: Robbins P. & Aydede M. (eds.)
The Cambridge handbook of situated cognition
. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 78–95.
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Philosophical interest in situated cognition has been focused most intensely on the claim that human cognitive processes extend from the brain into the tools humans use. As we see it, this radical hypothesis is sustained by two kinds of mistakes, confusing coupling relations with constitutive relations and an inattention to the mark of the cognitive. Here we wish to draw attention to these mistakes and show just how pervasive they are. That is, for all that the radical philosophers have said, the mind is still in the head.
Alhadeff-Jones M. (2009) Revisiting educational research through Morin’s paradigm of complexity. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education 6(1): 61–70. https://cepa.info/332
Alhadeff-Jones M.
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2009
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Revisiting educational research through Morin’s paradigm of complexity.
Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education 6(1): 61–70.
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The aim of this paper is to question the way one conceives the use of a specific theoretical approach (i.e., theories associated with the concept of complexity) in order to promote changes in educational practices and theories. The position I am adopting translates the conviction that any reform of thought has to be conceived in conjunction with a reflection about the idea of reform itself (Morin, 1999). It is therefore assumed that the use of the notion of complexity, to be critical and to bring significant changes, supposes not only to use a specific theoretical vocabulary, but also and above all to change the way scientific activity itself is conceived in order to bring about such a transformation. Following Edgar Morin’s constructivist and non-dualistic contribution, this paper discusses concepts such as program, strategy, prescription, interpretation, monoreferentiality and multireferentiality, in order to discuss researchers’ implication and the way they manage the relationships between the conditions of production of scientific discourses and the ″realities″ to which they are referring.
Armezzani M. (2009) How to understand consciousness: The strength of the phenomenological method. World Futures 65(2): 101–110. https://cepa.info/3968
Armezzani M.
(
2009
)
How to understand consciousness: The strength of the phenomenological method.
World Futures
65(2): 101–110.
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Analyzing the outline of the endless literature on consciousness, the separation between science and philosophy rather than being overcome, seems to come back in different shapes. According to this point of view, the hard problem seems to be how to study consciousness while avoiding a slip back to the old dualism. This article outlines the advantages of the phenomenological method. This method, more than getting over the mind-body separation, anticipates it through an open gaze, able to bring back the human presence as something structurally “ambiguous.” Reintroducing Husserl’s scientific project in a complete way, Francisco Varela opened up a research area yet to be explored, which promises to be fertile for neuroscience, provided that we accept that radicalism essential to phenomenology.
Key words:
Ambiguity
,
consciousness
,
dualism
,
Husserl
,
phenomenological method
,
Varela
Asaro P. M. (2009) Information and regulation in robots, perception and consciousness: Ashby’s embodied minds. International Journal of General Systems 38(2): 111–128. https://cepa.info/348
Asaro P. M.
(
2009
)
Information and regulation in robots, perception and consciousness: Ashby’s embodied minds.
International Journal of General Systems
38(2): 111–128.
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This article considers W. Ross Ashby’s ideas on the nature of embodied minds, as articulated in the last five years of his career. In particular, it attempts to connect his ideas to later work by others in robotics, perception and consciousness. While it is difficult to measure his direct influence on this work, the conceptual links are deep. Moreover, Ashby provides a comprehensive view of the embodied mind, which connects these areas. It concludes that the contemporary fields of situated robotics, ecological perception, and the neural mechanisms of consciousness might all benefit from a reconsideration of Ashby’s later writings.
Key words:
representation
,
embodiment
,
cognition
,
information theory
,
requisite variety
Auvray M., Lenay C. & Stewart J. (2009) Perceptual interactions in a minimalist virtual environment. New Ideas in Psychology 27: 32–47. https://cepa.info/478
Auvray M.
,
Lenay C.
&
Stewart J.
(
2009
)
Perceptual interactions in a minimalist virtual environment.
New Ideas in Psychology
27: 32–47.
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Minimalism is a useful element in the constructivist arsenal against objectivism. By reducing actions and sensory feedback to a bare minimum, it becomes possible to obtain a complete description of the sensory-motor dynamics; and this in turn reveals that the object of perception does not pre-exist in itself, but is actually constituted during the process of observation. In this paper, this minimalist approach is deployed for the case of the recognition of “the Other.” It is shown that the perception of another intentional subject is based on properties that are intrinsic to the joint perceptual activity itself.
Key words:
sensory-motor
,
dynamics
,
perception
,
minimalism
Averbeck-Lietz S. (2009) Konstruktivismus in der deutschen und französischen Kommunikationswissenschaft. In: Schulz P. J., Hartung U. & Keller S. (eds.) Identität und Vielfalt der Kommunikationswissenschaft. UVK, Konstanz: 65-87.
Averbeck-Lietz S.
(
2009
)
Konstruktivismus in der deutschen und französischen Kommunikationswissenschaft.
In: Schulz P. J., Hartung U. & Keller S. (eds.) Identität und Vielfalt der Kommunikationswissenschaft. UVK, Konstanz: 65-87.
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The author compares the development of constructivist approaches in two national communities of communication researches, France and Germany. Radical approches are nearly unvisible in the French community, here social constructivism relies mainly on action and speach theory.
Barandiaran X. E., Di Paolo E. & Rohde M. (2009) Defining agency: Individuality, normativity, asymmetry, and spatio-temporality in action. Adaptive Behavior 17(5): 367–386. https://cepa.info/6359
Barandiaran X. E.
,
Di Paolo E.
&
Rohde M.
(
2009
)
Defining agency: Individuality, normativity, asymmetry, and spatio-temporality in action.
Adaptive Behavior
17(5): 367–386.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/6359
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The concept of agency is of crucial importance in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and it is often used as an intuitive and rather uncontroversial term, in contrast to more abstract and theoretically heavily weighted terms such as intentionality, rationality, or mind. However, most of the available definitions of agency are too loose or unspecific to allow for a progressive scientific research program. They implicitly and unproblematically assume the features that characterize agents, thus obscuring the full potential and challenge of modeling agency. We identify three conditions that a system must meet in order to be considered as a genuine agent: (a) a system must define its own individuality, (b) it must be the active source of activity in its environment (interactional asymmetry), and (c) it must regulate this activity in relation to certain norms (normativity). We find that even minimal forms of proto-cellular systems can already provide a paradigmatic example of genuine agency. By abstracting away some specific details of minimal models of living agency we define the kind of organization that is capable of meeting the required conditions for agency (which is not restricted to living organisms). On this basis, we define agency as an autonomous organization that adaptively regulates its coupling with its environment and contributes to sustaining itself as a consequence. We find that spatiality and temporality are the two fundamental domains in which agency spans at different scales. We conclude by giving an outlook for the road that lies ahead in the pursuit of understanding, modeling, and synthesizing agents.
Key words:
agency
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individuality
,
interactional asymmetry
,
normativity
,
spatiality
,
temporality
Barandiaran X., Rohde M. & Di Paolo E. A. (2009) Defining agency: Individuality, normativity, asymmetry and spatio-temporality in action. Adaptive Behavior 17: 367–386. https://cepa.info/324
Barandiaran X.
,
Rohde M.
&
Di Paolo E. A.
(
2009
)
Defining agency: Individuality, normativity, asymmetry and spatio-temporality in action.
Adaptive Behavior 17: 367–386.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/324
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The concept of agency is of crucial importance in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and it is often used as an intuitive and rather uncontroversial term, in contrast to more abstract and theoretically heavy-weighted terms like “intentionality”, “rationality” or “mind”. However, most of the available definitions of agency are either too loose or unspecific to allow for a progressive scientific program. They implicitly and unproblematically assume the features that characterize agents, thus obscuring the full potential and challenge of modeling agency. We identify three conditions that a system must meet in order to be considered as a genuine agent: a) a system must define its own individuality, b) it must be the active source of activity in its environment (interactional asymmetry) and c) it must regulate this activity in relation to certain norms (normativity). We find that even minimal forms of proto-cellular systems can already provide a paradigmatic example of genuine agency. By abstracting away some specific details of minimal models of living agency we define the kind of organization that is capable to meet the required conditions for agency (which is not restricted to living organisms). On this basis, we define agency as an autonomous organization that adaptively regulates its coupling with its environment and contributes to sustaining itself as a consequence. We find that spatiality and temporality are the two fundamental domains in which agency spans at different scales. We conclude by giving an outlook to the road that lies ahead in the pursuit to understand, model and synthesize agents.
Barbieri M. (2009) A short history of biosemiotics. Biosemiotics 2(2): 221–245. https://cepa.info/4716
Barbieri M.
(
2009
)
A short history of biosemiotics.
Biosemiotics
2(2): 221–245.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4716
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Biosemiotics is the synthesis of biology and semiotics, and its main purpose is to show that semiosis is a fundamental component of life, i.e., that signs and meaning exist in all living systems. This idea started circulating in the 1960s and was proposed independently from enquires taking place at both ends of the Scala Naturae. At the molecular end it was expressed by Howard Pattee’s analysis of the genetic code, whereas at the human end it took the form of Thomas Sebeok’s investigation into the biological roots of culture. Other proposals appeared in the years that followed and gave origin to different theoretical frameworks, or different schools, of biosemiotics. They are: (1) the physical biosemiotics of Howard Pattee and its extension in Darwinian biosemiotics by Howard Pattee and by Terrence Deacon, (2) the zoosemiotics proposed by Thomas Sebeok and its extension in sign biosemiotics developed by Thomas Sebeok and by Jesper Hoffmeyer, (3) the code biosemiotics of Marcello Barbieri and (4) the hermeneutic biosemiotics of Anton Markoš. The differences that exist between the schools are a consequence of their different models of semiosis, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. In reality they go much deeper and concern the very nature of the new discipline. Is biosemiotics only a new way of looking at the known facts of biology or does it predict new facts? Does biosemiotics consist of testable hypotheses? Does it add anything to the history of life and to our understanding of evolution? These are the major issues of the young discipline, and the purpose of the present paper is to illustrate them by describing the origin and the historical development of its main schools.
Key words:
biosemiotics
,
signs
,
meaning
,
codes
,
interpretation
,
semiosis
Barwell R. (2009) Researchers’ descriptions and the construction of mathematical thinking. Educational Studies in Mathematics 72(2): 255–269. https://cepa.info/3731
Barwell R.
(
2009
)
Researchers’ descriptions and the construction of mathematical thinking.
Educational Studies in Mathematics
72(2): 255–269.
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Research in mathematics education is a discursive process: It entails the analysis and production of texts, whether in the analysis of what learners say, the use of transcripts, or the publication of research reports. Much research in mathematics education is concerned with various aspects of mathematical thinking, including mathematical knowing, understanding and learning. In this paper, using ideas from discursive psychology, I examine the discursive construction of mathematical thinking in the research process. I focus, in particular, on the role of researchers’ descriptions. Specifically, I examine discursive features of two well-known research papers on mathematical thinking. These features include the use of contrast structures, categorisation and the construction of facts. Based on this analysis, I argue that researchers’ descriptions of learners’ or researchers’ behaviour and interaction make possible subsequent accounts of mathematical thinking.
Key words:
Mathematical thinking
,
research methodology
,
discursive psychology
,
contrast structures
,
descriptions
,
epistemology
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