Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice

By Stephen J. Cowley

Book Overview

Human Thinking beyond the Brain.- Human Agency and the Resources of Reason.- Judgement Aggregation and Distributed Thinking.- Computer-Mediated Trust in Self-Interested Expert Recommendations.- Living as Languaging: Distributed Knowledge in Living Beings.- The Quick and the Dead: On Temporality and Human Agency.- You Want a Piece of Me? Paying Your Dues and Getting Your Due in a Distributed World.- Distributed Cognition at the Crime Scene.- Socially Distributed Cognition in Loosely Coupled Systems.- Thinking with External Representations.- Human Interactivity: Problem-solving, Solution-probing and Verbal Patterns in the Wild.- Interactivity and Embodied Cues in Problem Solving, Learning and Insight: Further Contributions to a "Theory of Hints".- Naturalising Problem Solving.- Systemic Cognition: Human Artifice in Life and Language.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447161645
• ISBN13: 9781447161646
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"