DYNAMICIST COGNITIVE SCIENCE
John Sutton
Philosophy Department,
Macquarie University.
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Introductions to the dynamicist picture
of mind, body, and world
John McCrone, Wild
Minds - the dynamics of the neural code (1997)
Randall Beer, 'Dynamical Approaches to Cognitive Science', Trends
in Cognitive Sciences 4 (2000), 91-99, online
via Beer's homepage
Robert Port, 'Dynamical Systems
Hypothesis in Cognitive Science', draft for Encyclopedia of Cognitive
Science
Tim van Gelder, 'Dynamic
Approaches to Cognition' [Adobe Acrobat Reader required], or in
The MIT Encyclopedia
of the Cognitive Sciences (MIT Press, 1999), pp.243-5
[If you like this, you can find more of van Gelder's
work via his publications
page: try for instance his longer defence of
'The Dynamical
Hypothesis in Cognitive Science', from Behavioral and Brain Sciences
21 (1998)]
Dynamical
Systems approach in Cognitive Science - bibliography by Eugenio
Borrelli
Ronald Lemmen, Non-Cartesian
Cognitive Science website
Michael L. Anderson, 'Embodied Cognition: a field guide', Artificial
Intelligence 149 (2003), 91-130;
with a reply by Ron Chrisley, 'Embodied Artificial Intelligence',
Artificial Intelligence 149 (2003), 131-150;
and Anderson's response, pp.151-6
Monica Cowart, 'Embodied
Cognition', The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2004), at
http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/embodcog.htm
More detail on various dynamical approaches
* Sunny Y. Auyang, Mind in Everyday Life and Cognitive Science
(MIT Press, 2000)
* Margaret Boden, 'The Philosophy of Cognitive Science', in A.
O'Hear (ed), Philosophy at the New
Millennium (Cambridge UP, 2001),
209-227
Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: understanding
complex systems (Routledge, 1998), esp. ch.2
J. Richard Eiser, Attitudes, Chaos, and the Connectionist
Mind (Blackwell, 1994)
* Jeff Elman, 'Connectionism, Artificial Life, and Dynamical Systems',
in W Bechtel & G Graham (eds.),
A Companion to Cognitive Science
(Blackwell, 1998), pp.488-505
J. Elman et al, Rethinking Innateness (MIT, 1996)
* Jeffrey Foss, 'Introduction to the Epistemology of the Brain:
indeterminacy, micro-specificity, chaos,
and openness', Topoi 11 (1992), 45-57.
* James Garson, 'Cognition Poised at the Edge of Chaos: a complex
alternative to a symbolic mind',
Philosophical Psychology 9 (1996), 301-322
Paul Griffiths & Karola Stotz, 'How the Mind Grows: a developmental
perspective on the biology of cognition',
Synthese 122 (2000), 29-51
R. Heath, B. Hayes, A. Heathcote, and C. Hooker (eds), Dynamical
cognitive science: Proceedings of the Fourth
Australasian Cognitive Science Conference
(University of Newcastle CD-ROM, 1999)
There
is a symposium on dynamical cognition here, with an introduction by Cliff
Hooker.
Horst Hendriks-Jansen, Catching Ourselves in the Act (MIT
Press, 1996)
* Terence Horgan and John Tienson, Connectionism and the
Philosophy of Psychology (MIT, 1996), chapter 4.
* Alicia Juarrero, Dynamics in Action: intentional behavior
as a complex system (MIT Press, 1999)
Rens Kortmann, Embodied cognitive science. Proceedings of Robo
Sapiens - the first Dutch symposium on
embodied intelligence (2001). Available in
ps or pdf from Kortmann's publications
page.
Mark Lewis & Isabela Granic (eds), Emotion, Development,
and Self-Organization: dynamic systems
approaches to emotional development (Cambridge,
2000)
Rafael Nunez & W.J. Freeman (eds), Reclaiming Cognition:
the primacy of action, intention, and
emotion (Imprint Academic, 1999
[essays reprinted from Journal of Consciousness Studies 6, 1999])
P. Van Geert, 1998. A dynamic systems model of basic developmental
mechanisms: Piaget, Vygotsky and beyond.
Psychological Review 105: 634—677.
Lawrence M. Ward, Dynamical Cognitive Science (MIT Press,
2002)
Link to papers
by Daniel Dennett
Critical evaluation of dynamicist views
Chris Eliasmith, 'The
third contender: a critical examination of the dynamicist theory of
cognition',
Philosophical Psychology
9, 441-463. From the abstract:
"In
this paper I begin with a short description of the dynamicist project
and its role as a cognitive theory. Subsequently,
I determine
the theoretical commitments of dynamicists, critically examine those
commitments and discuss current
examples
of dynamicist models. In conclusion, I determine dynamicism's relation
to symbolicism and connectionism
and
find that the dynamicist goal to establish a new paradigm has yet to be
realized."
Rick Grush, Yet another
design for a brain? Review of Port and van Gelder (eds) Mind as Motion
Anthony Chemero, 'Biological
Cognition & Objectivism' [discusses Clark, Varela, et al]
Clark Glymour, Goethe
to van Gelder: Comments on Dynamical Systems Models of Cognition
(1997)
Pim Haselager, Andre de Groot, Hans van Rappard, 'Representationalism
vs anti-representationalism: a debate for
the sake of appearance', Philosophical Psychology
16, 2003, 5-23
Cliff Hooker, 'Dynamical Systems in Development: review of Smith and
Thelen', Philosophical Psychology 10, 1997, 103-112.
Fred Keijzer & Sacha Bem, 'Behavioral Systems interpreted
as Autonomous Agents and as Coupled
Dynamical Systems: a criticism', Philosophical
Psychology 9 (1996), 323-346
Peter Smith, Explaining Chaos (Routledge, 1998),
especially pp.143-6.
Andy Clark
[This list only covers Clark's work since 1997 - there is a fuller
list of earlier publications list here,
or see
Andy Clark's home page here]
NEW: Andy has now got most of his papers online here
Cognitive Science Society Virtual Colloquium - Embodiment and
Ecological Control (April 2004)
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds,
Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence (Oxford UP, 2003):
with pdfs of the acknowledgements
and chapter
1 'Cyborgs Unplugged'.
Metapsychology
review by Neil Levy
Don Ihde's review 'Beyond
the Skin-Bag', Nature 424, 7 August 2003, p.615.
Dylan Evans' review 'New technology, old philosophy',
forthcoming in Connection Science
Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human
Intelligence - Andy Clark interviewed by
Natasha Mitchell on All in the Mind, ABC
Radio National.
Clark, 'Natural
Born Cyborgs?', online at Edge.
Clark, 'Memento's Revenge: the extended mind, extended', forthcoming
in Richard Menary (ed), The Extended
Mind: the very idea (2004?)
Clark, 'Towards a Science of the Bio-Technological Mind', International
Journal of Cognition and
Technology 1 (2002), 21-33.
Clark, 'That Special Something: Dennett on the making of minds and
selves', in A Brook & D Ross (eds),
Daniel Dennett (Cambridge UP, 2002), 187-205
John Haugeland, 'Andy Clark on Cognition and Representation', in Hugh
Clapin (ed), Philosophy of Mental
Representation (Oxford UP, 2002), 24-36,
with Clark's response 'The Roots of Norm-Hungriness', 37-43
and discussion, 44-61
Clark, 'Minds, Brains, and Tools' [on Dennett], in Hugh Clapin (ed),
Philosophy of Mental Representation
(Oxford UP, 2002), 66-90, with Dennett's response,
91-93, and discussion, 94-117.
Pete Mandik, Andy Clark, 'Selective Representing and World-Making',
Minds and Machines 12 (2002)
Clark, 'Putting the
Flesh on Embodied Cognition: singing burrows and surrogate situations',
talk at the International
interdisciplinary seminar on new robotics, evolution
and embodied cognition (IISREEC), Lisbon, November 2002
(pdf of slides from the talk available at that
site)
Clark, 'Reasons, robots, and the extended mind'. Mind and Language
16 (2) (2001), 121-145.
Clark, Mindware:
an introduction to the philosophy of cognitive science
(Oxford UP, 2001).
Clark, 'Visual experience and motor action: are the bonds too tight?',
Philosophical Review 110 (2001), 495-xxx.
Clark, 'A Case Where Access Implies Qualia?', Analysis 60 (2000),
30-38
Clark, 'Word and Action', in R Campbell & B Hunter (eds), Moral
Epistemology Naturalized
(Canadian Journal of Philosophy supplement
volume XXVI (2000)),
267-289; followed by a commentary by
Paul Churchland (pp.291-306), and then Clark's
'Making Moral Space: a reply to Churchland', pp.307-312
Clark, 'An Embodied Cognitive Science?', Trends in Cognitive Sciences
3 (9),1999, 345-351. Available online through
ScienceDirect if your library has
a subscription.
Andy Clark and Rick Grush (1999), 'Towards
a cognitive robotics'. Adaptive Behavior, 7(1):5-16.
Clark, Abstract
of 'Language, Mind and Distributed Cognition: A Picture and Some Puzzles',
1999 talk to the
Complex Systems Modelling Team, Santa Fe.
Clark, 'Visual Awareness and Visuomotor Action', in Nunez &
Freeman (eds), Reclaiming Cognition (Imprint, 1999).
Michael Wheeler & Andy Clark, 'Genic representation: reconciling content
and causal complexity', British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science 50 (1999)
Andy Clark & David Chalmers (1998) The
Extended Mind. Analysis 58 (1), 7-19.
Where
does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Is the mind inside
the head? Inside the body?
Joseph S. Fulda, The
Extended Mind - Extended [commentary on Clark and Chalmers].
Clark, Response
to Teed Rockwell on the modularity of dynamic systems (1998).
Clark, 'Embodied, Situated, and Distributed Cognition', in William
Bechtel & George Graham (eds), A Companion
to Cognitive Science (Blackwell,
1998), 506-517. Section titles: Wild Brains; Human Infants;
Autonomous Agents; Large-Scale
Systems; Complementary
Virtues?; Border Disputes; Conclusions.
Clark, 'Embodiment and the Philosophy of Mind', in A. O'Hear (ed),
Current Issues in Philosophy of Mind (CUP,
1998), 35-51. Sections: 1.
Introduction: the rediscovery of the body and the world; 2. Inner Symbol
Flight; 3. Radical Interactionism;
4. Minimal Cartesianism;
5. Scaling, Rationality, and Complexity.
Clark, 'Where Brain, Body and World Collide', Daedalus: J Am
Acad Arts & Sci 127:2, Spring 1998, 257-280.
Available online via Infotrac/ Expanded Academic if
your library has a subscription. Sections reproduced in chapters 5 and
8 of Mindware.
Clark, 'The Dynamical Challenge', Cognitive Science 21:4,
1997, 461-481. Available online through ScienceDirect if your
library has a subscription.
Clark, 'Time and Mind', Journal of Philosophy 95 (1998),
354-376.
Andy Clark's book Being
There: putting brain, body, and world together again (MIT,
1997)
This
is the best survey and defence of dynamical shifts in developmental
psychology, robotics, biology, & cognitive science.
Read the humorous epilogue to Being
There, a report by John's Brain on John's mistaken beliefs
about it.
Clark, 'Magic
Words: how language augments human computation'
[From the Abstract:
Public language, I argue, is a cognition-enhancing tool -- it is a species
of external artifact whose current adaptive
value is partially constituted
by its role in re-shaping the kinds of computational space that our
biological brains must negotiate in order to
solve certain types of problems,
or to carry out certain complex projects. ... I discuss the views of
some recent (and not-so-recent) authors,
who recognize in various ways,
the potential role of language and text in transforming, reshaping and
simplifying the computational
tasks that confront the biological
brain.]
Reviews of Clark, Being There, by Tim
van Gelder (Phil Review 107, 1998)
Critical notice by Eric Saidel, Canadian
Journal of Philosophy 29 (1999), 299-317
Sean Kelly
in Mind 109 (2000)
Anthony
Chemero, 'A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animats and Humans', Psyche 4
If your library subscribes to Metascience,
you can read a symposium on Being There in which Clark responds
to reviews by philosophers
and by the cognitive anthropologist Naomi Quinn. Try this
link.
Print review by Kim Sterelny, 'Roboroach, or, The Extended Phenotype
meets Cognitive Science', Philosophy &
Phenomenological Research LXI, 2000,
207-215. Argues that the extended mind argument is fine,
but that it is compatible with
a classical computationalist
(rather than connectionist/ dynamical) view of internal processing.
Reading
Group on Being There at Reading Uni: includes useful summaries
of chapters 1, 6, 7, 8, & 9.
The Extended Mind Hypothesis:
Brie Gertler, 'The Narrow Mind'
(2001)
John Haugeland, 'Mind Embodied and Embedded', in his Having
Thought: essays in the metaphysics of mind
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1998)), pp.207-237. Radical, provocative essay on cognitive systems.
Susan Hurley, VEHICLES, CONTENTS,
CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, AND EXTERNALISM Analysis 58 (1998)
Susan Hurley, Consciousness in Action (Harvard UP,
1998).
Mark Rowlands, The Body in Mind: understanding cognitive
processes (Cambridge UP, 1999): especially
chapter 5 on perception, chapter 6 on memory.
Brilliant statement & defence of an 'environmentalist' account of
mind.
Van Leeuwen, C., Verstijnen, I., and Hekkert, P. 1999. 'Common
unconscious dynamics underlie uncommon
conscious effects: a case study in the interaction
of perception and creation'. In J. Jordan (ed.), Modeling
consciousness across the disciplines.
Lanhan, MD: University Press of America, pp.179-218. Lovely extended
case
study of the use of sketchpads by abstract
artists. See the commentary by Andy Clark in Mindware, pp.147-150.
Robert A Wilson, 'Wide Computationalism', Mind 103 (1994),
351-372.
For criticisms of the extended mind hypothesis, see
Adams, Fred and Aizawa, Ken (2001) 'The Bounds of Cognition',
Philosophical Psychology 14, 43-64.
Butler, Keith (1998) Internal Affairs (Kluwer),
especially chapter 6.
Rick Grush, 'In Defense of Some "Cartesian" Assumptions Concerning
the Brain and its Operation', Biology
and Philosophy 18 (2003), 53-93
Robotics, Prosthetics, Representation:
Situated
Robotics - bibliography by Eugenio Borrelli
Rodney Brooks, "Intelligence Without Representation," Artificial
Intelligence Journal (47), 1991, 139--159.
Available to download or as
pdf format via Brooks' homepage [scroll to bottom,
go to publications, after having a look at the nice robots].
Rodney Brooks' course on Embodied Intelligence
Cynthia Breazeal & Anne Foerst, Schmoozing with Robots: Exploring
the boundary of the original wireless network
on Kismet and human-style interactions in socially
intelligent robotics.
Cynthia Breazeal & Brian Scassellati, 'Robots that Imitate Humans',
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6 (2002), 481-7
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, Robo Sapiens (MIT,
2000): a beautiful coffee-table book of robots large and small.
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi & Lee E. Miller, 'Brain-machine interfaces:
computational demands and clinical needs
meet basic neuroscience', Trends in Neurosciences
26 (2003), 329-334
Rolf Pfeifer, 'Robots as Cognitive Tools', International Journal
of Cognition and Technology 1 (2002), 125-143
Lucy Suchman, 'Replicants and
Irreductions: affective encounters at the interface' (2002)
Artificial Life (A-Life):
Mark A. Bedau, 'Emergent Models
of Supple Dynamics in Life and Mind', (1997)
Margaret Boden (ed), The Philosophy of Artificial Life
(OUP, 1996)
N. Katherine Hayles, 'Simulating Narratives: what virtual creatures
can teach us', Critical Inquiry 26 (1999).
M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity (Simon & Schuster,
1992) - excellent journalist's account of the Santa Fe
Institute, early Artificial Life research,
and applying chaos to the mind.
Distributed Cognition and Cognition
& Culture:
Yvonne Rogers, A Brief Introduction
to Distributed Cognition
[Summary:
Distributed Cognition is a hybrid approach to studying all aspects of
cognition, from a cognitive, social and organisational
perspective.
The most well known level of analysis is to account for complex socially
distributed cognitive activities, of which a
diversity
of technological artefacts and other tools and representations are an
indispensable part.]
Jiajie Zhang's Bibliography on
External Representations (up to 1997-98)
Collective
Cognition
Malcolm Gladwell, 'Group Think'
(2002)
On the coevolution of internal and external representations:
Daniel C. Dennett, Kinds of Minds (Basic Books,
1996), chapter 5 section 2 ‘Making Things to Think With’
Merlin Donald, (1993). Precis
of Origins of the modern mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and
cognition
Behavioral and Brain
Sciences 16 (4), 1993: 737-791. [NB Like most BBS
target articles, this is pretty long, so take care
with downloading/ printing. The most relevant section is the one titled
'Third transition: the externalization of memory'.
You can look at the print version of BBS 1993 for commentaries
and criticisms.]
Colin Renfrew and Chris Scarre (eds), Cognition and Material
Culture: the archaeology of symbolic storage
(Cambridge: Macdonald Institute,
1998). See especially the essays by Renfrew, Donald, and Lowe.
Merlin Donald, 'The Central Role of Culture in Cognitive Evolution',
in L. Nucci et al (eds), Culture, Thought, &
Development (Erlbaum, 2000),
19-38
Clifford Geertz, 'Culture, Mind, Brain/ Brain, Mind, Culture', in Geertz,
Available Light: anthropological
reflections on philosophical topics (Princeton
UP, 2000), 203-217. On how to best 'fumble confusedly
with the
materials of several disciplines'.
Discusses Andy Clark, Damasio, and the anthropology of emotion. (p.208:
'Words, images, gestures,
body-marks, and terminologies,
stories, rites, customs, harangues, melodies, and conversations, are
not mere vehicles of feelings
lodged elsewhere, so many reflections,
symptoms, and transpirations. They are the locus and machinery of the
thing itself'.) As well
as drives toward conceptual
unity, and specialized technical studies, we need a 'synoptical view',
best achieved through 'a restless,
catch-as-catch-can movement
of attention across counterpoised disciplinary matrices, an opportunistic
shift of focus from one
competing research program
and community to another' (pp.214-5).
Ronald N. Giere, 'Scientific Cognition as Distributed Cognition',
In Cognitive Bases of Science, eds. Peter Carruthers,
Stephen Stitch and Michael Siegal, Cambridge University
Press, 2002 (pdf available from here)
Ronald N. Giere, 'Distributed Cognition in Epistemic Cultures', Philosophy
of Science, forthcoming, (pdf available here)
Ronald N. Giere and Barton Moffatt, 'Distributed Cognition: Where
the Cognitive and the Social Merge',
Social Studies of Science, forthcoming (pdf
available from here)
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild (MIT Press,
1995), chapter 9 ‘Cultural Cognition’ (an anthropologist’s
outstanding critical history of cognitive science)
Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn, A Cognitive Theory of Cultural
Meaning (Cambridge U.P., 1997), ch.3
on connectionism, culture, and anthropology
Lucy Suchman, 'Human/Machine
Reconsidered' (2000)
John Sutton
Philosophy Department,
Macquarie University.
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