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Concepts- not just yardsticks, but also heuristics : rebutting Hacker and Bennett
Keestra, M.; Cowley, S. (2011)In their response to our article (), Hacker and Bennett charge us with failing to understand the project of their book Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (PFN; ) and do this by discussing foundationalism, linguistic ... -
Contextualizing bodies : how human responsiveness constrains distributed cognition
Cowley, S. (2004)Linking a distributed view of cognition to an integrational perspective on language, learning to talk is presented as an ontogenetic achievement. Examining this as an epigenetic process permits an innovative sketch of how ... -
Distributed language and dynamics
Cowley, S. (2009)Language is coordination. Pursuing this, the present Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition challenges two widely held positions. First, the papers reject the claim that language is essentially 'symbolic'. Second, they ... -
Grounding signs of culture : primary intersubjectivity in social semiosis
Cowley, S. (2004)The article examines how infants are first permeated by culture. Building on Thibault (2000), semiogenesis is traced to the joint activity of primary intersubjectivity. Using an African example, analysis shows how--at 14 ... -
How to do things without words : infants, utterance-activity and distributed cognition
Spurrett, D.; Cowley, S. (2004)Clark and Chalmers [Analysis 58 (1998) 7] defend the hypothesis of an ‘extended mind', maintaining that beliefs and other paradigmatic mental states can be implemented outside the central nervous system or body. Aspects ... -
Insightful thinking : Cognitive dynamics and material artifacts
Fioratou, E.; Cowley, S. (2009)We trace how cognition arises beyond the skin. Experimental work on insight problem solving is used to examine how external artifacts can be used to reach the goal of assembling a 'cheap necklace'. Instead of asking how ... -
Putting apes, (body and language) together again
Cowley, S.; Spurrett, D. (2003)It is argued that the account of Savage-Rumbaugh's ape language research in Savage-Rumbaugh, Shanker and Taylor (1998. Apes, Language and the Human Mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford) is profitably read in the terms of ... -
Simulating others : the basis of human cognition?
Cowley, S. (2004)The paper critiques the argument of Michael Tomasello’s Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999). This culture-first theory is judged to be a good sketch of how nature predisposes humans for talk. Above all, this is ... -
Thinking in action
Cowley, S.; Vallée-Tourangeau, F. (2010)While computers can be used to model human competencies, formalization has its limits. Sensori-motor dynamics are probably necessary to intelligence. Applied to language, verbal patterns become constraints or, in Elman’s ... -
What baboons, babies and Tetris players tell us about interaction : a biosocial view of norm-based social learning
Cowley, S.; Macdorman, K.F. (2006)Could androids use movements to build relationships? For people, relationships are created with the help of behaviour-shaping norms, which infants begin to discover and manipulate by the third month. To build relationships, ... -
When life hangs on biosemiosis: tracking expertise in a medical simulation centre
Galosia, M.; Steffensen, S.V.; Cowley, S.; Alinier, Guillaume (The Faculty of Philosophy of Braga, Portuguese Catholic University, 2010)