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Situated Cognition Research

Methodological Foundations

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Editors:
  1. Mark-Oliver Casper

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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  2. Giuseppe Flavio Artese

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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  • First Large-Scale Analysis of the Possibility and Prerequisites for a Methodology of Situated Cognition Research
  • Offers compelling arguments for the importance of Situated Cognition Research for cognitive phenomena
  • Presents diverse opinions from supporters and critics of Situated Cognition Research

Part of the book series: Studies in Brain and Mind (SIBM, volume 23)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark-Oliver Casper, Giuseppe Flavio Artese
    Pages 1-14

  3. Philosophy of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. A Methodological Problem of Choice for 4E Research

      • Mark-Oliver Casper
      Pages 17-43

    3. A Professional Guide to Explanation. Commentary on “A Methodological Problem of Choice for 4E Research”

      • Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira
      Pages 45-50

    4. Explanatory Diversity and Embodied Cognitive Science: Reflexivity Motivates Pluralism

      • Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira
      Pages 51-76

    5. Commentary on “Explanatory Diversity and Embodied Cognitive Science: Reflexivity Motivates Pluralism”

      • Mark-Oliver Casper
      Pages 77-81

    6. Ecological Psychology, Enaction, and the Quest for an Embodied and Situated Cognitive Science

      • Manuel Heras-Escribano
      Pages 83-102

    7. Normativity and the Methodology of 4E Cognition: Taking Stock and Going Forward

      • Pierre Steiner
      Pages 103-126

  4. Ontology of the Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Extended Cognition and the Search for the Mark of Constitution – A Promising Strategy?

      • Beate Krickel
      Pages 129-146

    3. Commentary on “Extended Cognition and the Search for the Mark of Constitution – A Promising Strategy?”

      • Julian Kiverstein, Michael Kirchhoff
      Pages 147-153

    4. Dissolving the Causal-Constitution Fallacy: Diachronic Constitution and the Metaphysics of Extended Cognition

      • Julian Kiverstein, Michael Kirchhoff
      Pages 155-173

    5. Why Diachronic Constitution Won’t Help. Commentary on “Dissolving the Causal-Constitution Fallacy”

      • Beate Krickel
      Pages 175-180

    6. 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, Niccolò Negro
      Pages 181-208

    7. Commentary on “Predictive Processing and Extended Consciousness”

      • Julian Kiverstein, Michael Kirchhoff
      Pages 209-216

    8. Plural Methods for Plural Ontologies: A Case Study from the Life Sciences

      • Luis H. Favela, Anthony Chemero
      Pages 217-238

  5. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Chronic Pain, Enactivism, & the Challenges of Integration

      • Sabrina Coninx, Peter Stilwell
      Pages 241-276

    3. Affordances, the Social Environment, and the Notion of Field: State of the Debate and Methodological Insights

      • Giuseppe Flavio Artese
      Pages 277-305
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About this book

This volume assembles supporters and critics of situated cognition research to evaluate the intricacies, prerequisites, possibilities, and scope of a 4E methodology. The contributions are divided into three categories. The first category entails papers dealing with a 4E methodology from the perspective of epistemology and philosophy of science. It discusses whether to support explanatory pluralism or explanatory unification and focuses on possible compromises between ecological psychology and enactivism. The second category addresses ontological questions regarding the synchronic and diachronic constitution of cognitive phenomena, the localization of cognitive processes, and the theoretical issue of mutual manipulability. The third category analyzes how the theoretical and practical commitments of 4E approaches lead to empirically supported investigations of different phenomena, such as research on affordances and (chronic) pain. The book renews attention to the possible adverse consequences coming along with methodical fragmentation, as found among 4E positions. It provides an overdue first step towards a systematic and positive answer to methodological concerns in situated cognition research. Without this and further steps in the future, the growth of 4E´s significance for the scientific study of the mind might stall or even decrease. With such steps, situated cognition research could realize its frequently highlighted but so far not comprehensively accessed potential to change radically the modalities of how cognitive phenomena are studied. This volume is of interest to scholars of the philosophy of mind.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Mark-Oliver Casper, Giuseppe Flavio Artese

About the editors

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 research

Giuseppe 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.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Situated Cognition Research

  • Book Subtitle: Methodological Foundations

  • Editors: Mark-Oliver Casper, Giuseppe Flavio Artese

  • Series Title: Studies in Brain and Mind

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39744-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39743-1Published: 27 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39746-2Due: 28 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39744-8Published: 26 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 1573-4536

  • Series E-ISSN: 2468-399X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 310

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science

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