Cognitive Integration: Attacking the Bounds of Cognition Book

Acknowledgements     xi
Foreword     xii
Introduction     1
Setting the Scene
Cognitivism and Internalism     10
Introduction     10
What is a cognitive process and what is a cognitive system?     12
The classical and non-classical visions     14
Cognitive internalism     15
The argument from causal capacities     17
Individuation by intrinsic causal properties     18
Causal capacities supervene on intrinsic causal properties     21
First stage of the computational argument: Methodological solipsism     26
The second stage of the computational argument: Integrated computational systems     31
Conclusion     36
Externalism, Dynamics and the Extended Mind     38
Introduction     38
Integration and externalism     39
Cognitive dynamics     42
Active externalism and causal coupling     48
The parity principle     55
Functional similarity     59
Conclusion     60
Defending Cognitive Integration     61
Introduction     61
The "coupling-constitution fallacy"     61
Response to the "coupling-constitutionfallacy"     62
The intrinsic content condition     64
Response to the intrinsic content condition     66
Extended cognitive science is no science at all     69
Response to the extended cognitive science is no science at all objection     71
Conclusion     75
Formulating Cognitive Integration
Cognitive Integration: Embodied Engagements and the Manipulation Thesis     77
Introduction     77
Embodied engagements     78
Expertise     81
A sporting example     81
The manipulation thesis     83
Biological coupling     85
Epistemic action     86
Representation: The Peircean principle     95
The three conditions for the repeatability of the representational triad     96
The representational vehicle     96
Representational salience     97
Representational function     98
The representational triad     99
Conclusion     101
The Evolution of the Hybrid Mind     102
Introduction     102
Organism-environment systems     104
Reciprocal coupling and extended phenotypes     106
Extended phenotypes and adaptation      108
Biological coupling and adaptation     110
Biological normativity and representation     117
Proper functions     118
Example: Bee dances     119
Teleonomic representation     120
Biosemantics and reciprocal coupling     121
Biological coupling as cognitive coupling     125
Hominid evolution     130
Conclusion     134
Cognitive Practices     135
Introduction     135
Cognitive norms     136
Forms of representation     141
Cognitive tasks and external representations     144
What systematicity is     149
Systematicity in infra-verbal animal thought as evidence for the systematicity of thought     154
Grammatical, semantic and pragmatic constraints on linguistic systematic capacities: SVO, poetry and yoda     157
Compositionality     163
Preliminary analysis part 1: Real symbol processing     166
Preliminary analysis part 2: A connectionist account of logic     168
Conclusion     170
Development and the Transformation of Cognitive Abilities     172
Introduction     172
The development of cognitive abilities      172
The social development of higher mental processes     175
The development of manipulative capacities     176
Practical intelligence in animals and children     177
Social interaction and the transformation of practical activity     179
Connectionist language learning without internal structured representations     185
Conclusion     191
Conclusion: Cognitive Webs     193
Notes     194
Bibliography     198
Index     206