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Philosophical antecendents to situated cognition

In Robbins, P. and Aydede, M. (eds). Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Dewey, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein provide continuing resources for approaches to cognition that recognize its situated nature. I suggest that these thinkers are not just part of the historical background, but that we can learn by thinking further about their contributions. They remind us that cognition is not only pragmatically situated but also always socially situated, not simply in the sense that the world is populated with others with whom we communicate but also in the sense that this communication and interaction shape our cognitive abilities from the very beginning. They push us to realize that cognition not only is enactive but also elicited by our physical and social environment; that it not only involves a deeply embodied and temporally structured action but also is formed in an affective resonance generated by our surroundings and by others with whom we interact. These thinkers also challenge us to consider what it means to think of cognition as situated, what it means to do a science of situated cognition, and what it means if we end up with more than one conception of what situated cognition means.

Situated Cognition in Theoretical and Practical Context

Page 76. 3 Situated Cognition in Theoretical and Practical Context Brent G. Wilson University of Colorado at Denver Karen Madsen Myers University of Colorado at Denver INTRODUCTION The discipline of instructional design ...

Gallagher, S. 2009. Philosophical antecedents to situated cognition

2009

In this chapter I plan to situate the concept of situated cognition within the framework of antecedent philosophical work. My intention, however, is not to provide a simple historical guide but to suggest that there are still some untapped resources in these past philosophers that may serve to enrich current accounts of situated cognition. I will include embodied cognition as part of the concept of situated cognition.

Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture: An Introduction

Poetics Today, 2017

The article surveys three major positions in early debates about situated cognition in the 1990s as they are represented, in particular, in the work of Edwin Hutchins, Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger, Tim van Gelder, Andy Clark, Jerome S. Bru-ner, and John Haugeland. Rather than arbitrate among the three positions and declare a winner, the article suggests that the very tensions between subpersonal, supraperso-nal, and personal levels of analysis evident in the debates are a necessary feature of the study of situated cognition, which can be resolved only by the sort of case by case negotiation of which we find records in the cultural archive. The eight case studies collected in this special issue can be read as explorations of the historical variety of these lived negotiations.