Situated Cognition Research

Mark-Oliver Casper is PI of the research group ‘‘Philosophy of Situated Cognition’’ at the University of Kassel (Germany). He received his PhD in Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum and his M.A. in Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin. His research is mainly focused on situated cognition theories, especially enactivism, the scaling-up problem, and methodological studies of 4E researchGiuseppe Flavio Artese is a Research Associate and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Kassel (Germany) and a member of the research group ‘‘Philosophy of Situated Cognition’’. His areas of specialization concern, on the one hand, contemporary Enactive and Ecological theories of cognition and, on the other, their philosophical antecedents such as Phenomenology, American Pragmatism, and Gestalt Psychology.

• Chapter 1. Introduction by the Editors.- Category I – Philosophy of Science. Chapter 2. A Provisional Guide to a 4E Methodology; Mark-Oliver Casper.- Chapter 3. Explanatory Diversity and Embodied Cognitive Science: Reflexivity motivates Pluralism; Guilherme Sanches de Olivera.- Chapter 4. Putting the Brain (Back) at Its Own Place: Forms of Life and Normative Practices; Pierre Steiner.- Chapter 5. Ecological Psychology, Enaction, and the Quest for a Radical Embodied Cognitive Science; Manuel Heras-Escribano.- Category II – Ontology of the Mind.- Chapter 6. The Location of Cognition – Three Notions of Constitution and the Need for Pragmatic Norms; Beate Krickel.- Chapter 7. Dissolving the Causal-Constitutive Fallacy: Diachronic Constitution and the Metaphysics of (Extended) Cognition; Julian Kiverstein & Michael Kirchhoff.- Chapter 8. Predictive Processing and Extended Consciousness: Why the Machinery of Consciousness Is (Probably) Still in the Head and the DEUTS Argument Won’t Let It Leak Outside; Marco Facchin.- Category III – Applications.- Chapter 9. The Phenomenon of Context in Affordance Perception: Empirical Evidence and Phenomenological Considerations; Giuseppe Flavio Artese.- Chapter 10. Chronic Pain, Enactivism, and the Challenges of Integration; Sabrina Coninx & Peter Stilwell.