Philosophy of Cognition: Reading list

Books and Articles

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  • Thagard, P, Computation and Representation. In P. Thagard, Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, Second Edition, 2005.
  • Bardone, E., Moving the Bonds: Distributing Cognition through Cognitive Niche Construction. In E. Bardone, Seeking Chances: From Biased Rationality to Distributed Cognition. Springer, Berlin, in press.
  • Kevin N. Laland, John Odling-Smee & Marcus W. Feldman, Niche Construction, Biological Evolution, and Cultural Change. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (1):131-146.
  • Clark, A. Where brain, body, and world collide, Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 127(2): 257-280, 1998. DAEDALUS : JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (Special Issue on The Brain) Vol 127: no 2: Spring 1998 p. 257-280
  • Rupert, R.D., Introduction: The Mind, the Computer, and the Alternatives. In R.D: Rupert, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009.
  • Rupert, R.D., Part I: The Thinking Organism. In R.D: Rupert, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009.
  • Magnani, L., Beyond Mind: How Brains Make up Artificial Cognitive Systems, Minds and Machines 19(4), 2009.
  • Brooks, R.A., Intelligence Without Reason.
  • Adams, F., Defending the Bounds of Cognition. In R. Menary,The Extended Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2010.
  • Entries: Algorithm, Computation, Computational Brain. In R. Wilson & F.C. Kiel (eds) The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1999.
  • Dror, I.E. & Harridan S., Offloading cognition onto cognitive technology. In Dror, I.E. & S. Harridan, Cognition Distributed. How cognitive technology extends our minds, John Benjamins, New York, 2007.
  • Heinz, C. Web Search engines and distributed assessment systems. In Dror, I.E. & S. Harridan, Cognition Distributed. How cognitive technology extends our minds, John Benjamins, New York, 2007.
  • Laland, K.N. & Brown, G. R., Niche Construction, Human Behavior, and the Adaptive-Lag Hypothesis, Evolutionary Anthropology 15: 95-104, 2006.
  • Barker, G. (2008). Biological Levers and Extended Adaptationism. Biology and Philosophy 23 (1): 1-25, 2008.
  • Schot, J. & Geels, F.W., Niches in evolutionary theories of technical change A critical survey of the literature, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17:605-622, 2007.
  • Clark, A., Language, embodiment, and the cognitive niche, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10(8), 2006.
  • Iriki A. & Osamu, S., The neuroscience of primate intellectual evolution: natural selection and passive and intentional niche construction. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 363, 2229-2241, 2008.
  • Sinha, Language as a biocultural niche and social institution, In V. Evans and S. Pourcel (eds), New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics.
  • Thomas, N.J.T., Are Theories of Imagery Theories of Imagination? An Active Perception Approach to Conscious Mental Content. Cognitive Science 23, 207-245, 1999.
  • Dawkins, R., Memes. The New Replicators. In Dawkins, R., The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989.
  • Bernstein, M., Van Kleek, M., Karger, D. & Schraefel, M., Information Scraps: How and Why Information Eludes our Personal Information Management Tools. Transactions on Information Systems 26 (4). 1-46, 2008.
  • Magnani, L. & E. Bardone, Seeking chances through interface design: the role of abduction, SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009.
  • Thagard, P., How Brains Make Mental Models. In L. Magnani et al, Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, Springer, Berlin, 2010.
  • Nersessian, N. J., Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E. & Davies, J., A Mixed-method Approach to Studying Distributed Cognition in Evolving Environments. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Sciences. pp. 307--314, 2002.
  • Pino, B., Re-assessing ecology of tool transparency in epistemic practices, Mind & Society 9(1): 85-110, 2010.
  • Sterelny, K., Memes Revisited, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (1):145-165, 2006.
  • Blackmore, S., Those Dreaded Memes: The Advantage of Memetics Over "Symbolic Inheritance", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (4):365-36, 2007.
  • Van Gelder, T., What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?, The Journal of Philosophy 92(7): 345-381, 1995.
  • Clark, A., Soft selves and ecological control. In Ross at al. (eds), Distributed Cognition and the Will, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2007.