From Wide Cognition to Mechanisms: A Silent Revolution
In this paper, we argue that several recent 'wide' perspectives on cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive, and distributed) are only partially relevant to the study of cognition. While these wide accounts override traditional methodological individualism, the study of cognition...
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Published in | Frontiers in psychology Vol. 9; p. 2393 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Switzerland
Frontiers Media S.A
06.12.2018
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Summary: | In this paper, we argue that several recent 'wide' perspectives on cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive, and distributed) are only partially relevant to the study of cognition. While these wide accounts override traditional methodological individualism, the study of cognition has already progressed beyond these proposed perspectives toward building integrated explanations of the mechanisms involved, including not only internal submechanisms but also interactions with others, groups, cognitive artifacts, and their environment. Wide perspectives are essentially research heuristics for building mechanistic explanations. The claim is substantiated with reference to recent developments in the study of "mindreading" and debates on emotions. We argue that the current practice in cognitive (neuro)science has undergone, in effect, a silent mechanistic revolution, and has turned from initial binary oppositions and abstract proposals toward the integration of wide perspectives with the rest of the cognitive (neuro)sciences. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology Edited by: Agnieszka Wykowska, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Reviewed by: Loïc P. Heurley, Université Paris Nanterre, France; Herbert Heuer, Leibniz-Institut für Arbeitsforschung an der TU Dortmund (IfADo), Germany |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 1664-1078 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02393 |