Hajo Greif is Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Ethics in Administration, Warsaw University of Technology. He also works as Senior Researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University of Munich. His research interests cover the philosophy – and some of the history an the social studies – of science and technology, as well as the philosophy of mind.

• Preliminaries: Ants and Robots, Parlour Games and Steam DrillsBackgroundOutlineI Informational Environments Resurrecting Dretskean InformationInformation, Behaviour, and ProbabilityThe Content of Natural Information, and Some DiscontentAlternative InformationNatural Information and the Roots of Intentionality Varieties of PerceptionPerception as Information Processing: The Computational ViewInformation Specifies Affordances: The Ecological ViewPerceptual Illusions vs. Misperception: The Empirical Strategy The Domains of Natural InformationNatural Information and Reference ClassesInformational DomainsResurrection at Last Making an EnvironmentHistory, Ecology, EnvironmentAdapting Ecological NichesConstruction and Constitution What is an Informational Environment?Environmental Information and the Use of CognitionWhat Informational Environments AreHow Informational Environments Change II Environments of Intelligence The Extension of the Extended MindThe Extension of Functional HistoriesThe Constitution of Cognitive ExtensionsConstitutional MattersThe Art of Coupling, Basic and Advanced The Nature of Cognitive ArtefactsBeing Guided by PicturesCognitive Artefacts and Informational EnvironmentsConvergence and Isomorphism The Intelligence of EnvironmentsEvolutionary and Cognitive RoboticsEmbodied Conversational Agents and Social RoboticsSecond LifeMixed Reality GamesAugmented RealityNaturalising the Artificial10 Afterthoughts on Conceptual Analysis and Human NatureA Domain for Conceptual AnalysisA Naturalist’s View of Human Nature and MachinesBibliographyIndex

"An absorbing volume that integrates an extraordinarily wide area of work, with interesting observations and new twists right to the end."Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut, USA