The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition

Philip Robbins received his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the University of Missouri, he taught at the University of Vermont and Washington University in St Louis. Murat Aydede received his BA from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and his PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park. Before coming to the University of British Columbia, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Florida.

• Part I. Backdrop: 1. A short primer on situated cognition Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede; 2. Scientific antecedents of situated cognition William J. Clancey; 3. Philosophical antecedents of situated cognition Shaun Gallagher; Part II. Conceptual Foundations: 4. How to situate cognition: letting nature take its course Robert A. Wilson and Andy Clark; 5. Why the mind is still in the head Fred Adams and Kenneth Aizawa; 6. Innateness and the situated mind Robert Rupert; 7. Situated representation Mark Rowlands; 8. Dynamics, control, and cognition Chris Eliasmith; 9. Explanation: mechanism, modularity, and situated cognition William Bechtel; 10. Embedded rationality Ruth Millikan; Part III. Empirical Developments: 11. Situated perception and sensation in vision and other modalities: from an active to a sensorimotor account Erik Myin and Kevin O'Regan; 12. Spaces of thought Barbara Tversky; 13. Remembering John Sutton; 14. Situating concepts Lawrence W. Barsalou; 15. Problem-solving and situated cognition David Kirsh; 16. The dynamic interactions between situations and decisions Jerome R. Busemeyer, Ryan K. Jessup and Eric Dimperio; 17. Situating rationality: ecologically rational decision making with simple heuristics Henry Brighton and Peter M. Todd; 18. Situativity and learning R. Keith Sawyer and James G. Greeno; 19. Language in the brain, body, and world Rolf A. Zwaan and Michael P. Kaschak; 20. Language processing embodied and embedded Michael Spivey and Daniel Richardson; 21. Situated semantics Varol Akman; 22. Is consciousness embodied? Jesse J. Prinz; 23. Emotions in the wild: the situated perspective on emotion Paul Griffiths and Andrea Scarantino; 24. The social context of cognition Eliot R. Smith and Frederica R. Conrey; 25. Cognition for culture Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken; 26. Neuroethology: from morphological computation to planning Malcolm A. MacIver.

“Situated cognition has become a hot topic in cognitive science, encompassing a broad range of disciplines and theories concerning the relationship between mind, body and the world. The Cambridge Handbook provides an indispensable guide to the best ideas and controversies concerning the problems of embodied, embedded, distributed and situated cognition. Publication of the Handbook is a landmark in bringing together the foremost theorists in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection. The chapters are original overviews concerning historical, foundational, theoretical and empirical issues from philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, AI and robotics. The collection is a definitive resource for understanding the central issues in cognitive science today concerning mental representations, their meaning and their grounding interactions with the body and the external world.”—Dr. Peter Slezak, University of New South Wales