... cognitive science and the key points of this methodology, namely formalization, construction, and neural correlation, and also discusses shared belief and communicative intention, primitives that are essential to the theory of cognitive pragmatics. It then looks at conversational and behavioral cooperation...

... in tension with the commitment to describe experience accurately, and that ‘4e’ cognitive science focusing on the embodied, embedded, enacted and extended nature of cognition is a better option. In support of this claim it considers the roles of ‘scaffolds’ and action-oriented representation in 4e cognitive...

...Cognitive science has undergone a transformation where many cognitive abilities have now been explored in a wide range of organisms. This introductory chapter presents a schematic portrait of the sources of change in cognitive sciences and provides a basis for the field called cognitive biology...

...This chapter describes the revolutionary atmosphere of today’s cognitive science, clarifying the pivotal theses on which Radical Enactive Cognition (REC) leans, and introducing the main players—traditional Content Involving Cognition (CIC), newly articulated Conservative Enactive Cognition (CEC...

... to explaining many sophisticated human doings too—especially those associated with manual activities such as reaching and grasping. If this is right, it is possible that cognitive science may go much further than is typically supposed without CIC; potentially Radical Enactive Cognition (REC) has real reach...

...This chapter aims to prove the soundness of non-Cartesian cognitive science and to disprove the notion that it is a peculiar outburst of philosophers of eccentric dispositions. Its most recent version is a product of empirical work in a variety of related disciplines. A very brief survey...

...This chapter aims to develop a criterion of cognition that determines whether a process counts as a cognitive one or not. The reason for developing this criterion is not because cognitive science needs such a criterion but, rather, because the amalgamated mind does. The chapter begins...

... criteria. Toward the end of the chapter, the author reminds readers of a familiar conundrum: if a representation’s having content is not causally potent in a psychological process, why is it (still) a central tenet of mainstream cognitive science that such a process should be understood as representational...

...Building on foundations from the cognitive science of religion, this chapter synthesizes theoretical insights and empirical evidence concerning the processes by which cultural evolutionary processes driven by intergroup competition may have shaped the package of beliefs, rituals, practices...

...This chapter presents a criticism of the “language-based inference,” an argument for the expansion of the mind that utilizes empirical observations about language and cognition. Cognitive science claims that the use of language, as a system of extraorganismic marks and sounds, creates minds...

...The aim of this book is to present the paradigm of enaction as a framework for an all-encompassing renewal of cognitive science as a whole. There have been many critiques of classical, first-generation cognitivism based on the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). This book explores new paths instead...

...This chapter endeavors to explain how the proto-paradigm of enaction fulfills the two requirements of any paradigm in cognitive science: The provision of a genuine resolution to the mind–body problem and the provision of a genuine core articulation between a multiplicity of disciplines. First...

...This chapter describes cognitive science. In its widest sense, the term cognitive science is used to indicate that the study of mind is in itself a worthy scientific pursuit. At this time, cognitive science is not yet established as a mature science. It does not have a clearly agreed upon sense...

...This chapter illustrates how philosophers endeavoring to integrate mentality into the world that science investigates naturally turn their gaze to computational approaches in cognitive science, such as the computational theory of mind. Three main problems lead to the suspicion that language...

... and the paper considers a range of points of contact where philosophical work can illuminate work in the cognitive sciences, and vice versa. Marr D Fodor J Self consciousness Concepts Self reference Shoemaker S Hurley S Nonconceptual content Nonconceptual self consciousness Self awareness Priority...

...The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. But tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions—the unrecognized origins of ideas now central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive...

...This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential. Through...

...This book offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated explanations of delusion that interweave philosophical questions about the nature of belief and rationality with findings from cognitive science and neurobiology...

... from a convergence of various disciplines in cognitive science, namely, situated robotics and artificial intelligence, perceptual psychology, dynamical approaches to developmental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The new science of the mind will employ different methods...