From Wide Cognition to Mechanisms: A Silent Revolution

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 9; p. 2393
• Main Authors: Miłkowski, Marcin, Clowes, Robert, Rucińska, Zuzanna, Przegalińska, Aleksandra, Zawidzki, Tadeusz, Krueger, Joel, Gies, Adam, McGann, Marek, Afeltowicz, Łukasz, Wachowski, Witold, Stjernberg, Fredrik, Loughlin, Victor, Hohol, Mateusz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 06.12.2018
• Subjects: distributed cognition; embodied cognition; enactivism; extended mind; grounded cognition; Psychology; scaffolded mind; enactivism; grounded cognition; mechanistic explanation; scaffolded mind; wide mechanism; extended mind; embodied cognition; distributed cognition

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...