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Development, Resilience Engineering, Degeneracy, and Cognitive Practices
Drawing on a range of literature, I introduce two new concepts for understanding and exploring distributed cognition: resilience engineering and...
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Practices
In this chapter, I explore the concept of smart data practices, i.e. collecting and operationalizing data by using MAI. The underlying assumption is...
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Examining farmers’ adoption of nutrient management best management practices: a social cognitive framework
The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy (NRS) aims to reduce nutrient loads in waterways from nonpoint sources such as farm fields. Farmers’ voluntary...
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Organizational Good Epistemic Practices
Epistemic practices are an important but underappreciated component of business ethics; good conduct requires making epistemically sound as well as...
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ChatGPT and the Technology-Education Tension: Applying Contextual Virtue Epistemology to a Cognitive Artifact
According to virtue epistemology, the main aim of education is the development of the cognitive character of students (Pritchard,
2014 ,2016 ). Given...
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Therapeutic Chatbots as Cognitive-Affective Artifacts
Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) systems (also known as AI “chatbots”) are among the most promising examples of the use of technology in...
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Great ape enculturation studies: a neglected resource in cognitive development research
Disagreement remains about whether particular human socio-cognitive traits arose primarily as a result of biological adaptations, or because of...
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Critique of Cognitive Parallelism
Habermas’s discourse ethics implies a cognitivist assumption that normative claims are justifiable on the basis of communicative reason. This...
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The Logic of Social Practices II
This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices. Merging perspectives from various disciplines, including philosophy, biology,...
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Reconceptualizing Simulations: Epistemic Objects and Epistemic Practices in Professional Education
This study explores how and why simulation training facilitates professional learning by investigating how simulators and simulations are used and...
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Tasks in cognitive science: mechanistic and nonmechanistic perspectives
A tension exists between those who do—e.g. Meyer (The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71:959–985,
2020 ) and Chemero (2011 )—and those...
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Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices: Beyond Material Agency
We examine the question of material agency as raised in material engagement theory (MET). Insofar as MET tends to highlight the causal roles played...
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Social and cognitive diversity in science: introduction
In this introduction to the Topical Collection on Social and Cognitive Diversity in Science , we map the questions that have guided social...
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The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems
The increasing popularity of artificial cognitive enhancements raises the issue of their impact on the agent’s personal autonomy, and issues...
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Cultural Concepts of Person and Social Relationships in Tongan Language and Cultural Practices
This chapter analyzes linguistic forms and practices of person reference (particularly kinship terminology and honorific registers) in Tongan (a...
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Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science and the Nature of Cognition
Over the last decades, Interdisciplinarity (ID) has become one of the leading research practices. Traditionally, cognitive science is considered one...
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Boundary objects, trading zones, and stigmergy: the social and the cognitive in science
The main proposal of this paper is that boundary objects and the trading zones in which they occur are the analogue of pheromone trails in the...
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Culture as Cognitive Technology: An Evolutionary Perspective
Cognitive anthropology is in need of a theory that extends beyond cultural model theory and explains both how culture has transformed human cognition...
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Explanatory Diversity and Embodied Cognitive Science: Reflexivity Motivates Pluralism
Explanatory diversity is a salient feature of the sciences of the mind, where different projects focus on neural, psychological, cognitive, social or...
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Silence as a Cognitive Tool to Comprehend the Environment
This article presents silence as a cognitive tool to comprehend the environment. Two dimensions of silence are addressed: a natural mechanism and...
