Distributed Cognition: Between the Individual and the Social
Abstract Ronald Giere employed the concept of distributed cognition as a tool to analyse scientific research. In this paper we begin by explaining the origin of this notion in the examples of navigation and parallel distributed processing, as well as Giere’s application to science. Next, we examine the explanatory advantages of distributed cognition within his perspectivism, particularly the claim that it allows to study science as a process and to erase the divide between the cognitive and the social, and the limits that Giere establishes for its application. Then we locate Giere’s position in relation to the debates about the extended mind and its successive waves, focused either on the parity principle, the complementarity principle, or the collective and social nature of cognition. In doing so, we show that some criticisms of Giere miss the point. Finally, we reevaluate Giere’s reluctance to extend certain mental properties to distributed cognitive systems, presenting two recent attempts to establish conditions in which such an extension is reasonable.
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Cash, Mason (2013). Cognition without Borders : “Third Wave” Socially Distributed Cognition and Relational Autonomy. Cognitive Systems Research, 25-26, 61-71.
Clark, Andy (1997). Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Clark, Andy y Chalmers, David (1998). The Extended Mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7-19.
Gallagher, Shaun (2013). The Socially Extended Mind. Cognitive Systems Research, 25-26, 4-12.
Giere, Ronald N. (2002a). Scientific Cognition as Distributed Cognition. En Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stitch y Michael Siegal (eds.), The Cognitive Basis of Science (pp. 285-299). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Giere, Ronald N. (2002b). Distributed Cognition in Epistemic Cultures. Philosophy of Science, 69, 637-644.
Giere, Ronald N., Moffat, Barton (2003). Distributed Cognition: Where the Cognitive and the Social Merge. Social Studies of Science, 33(2), 301-310.
Giere, Ronald N. (2006a). Scientific Perspectivism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Giere, Ronald N. (2006b). The Role of Agency in Distributed Cognitive Systems. Philosophy of Science, 73(5), 710-719.
Giere, Ronald N. (2007). Distributed Cognition without Distributed Knowing. Social Epistemology, 21(3), 313-320.
Glymour, Clark (1992). Invasion of the Mind Snatchers. En R. Giere (ed.), Cognitive Models of Science (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science) (pp. 465-471). Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Huebner, Bryce (2014). Macrocognition: A Theory of Distributed Minds and Collective Intentionality. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hutchins, Edwin (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Knorr-Cetina, Karin (1999). Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Latour, Bruno y Woolgar, Steve (1986). Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Rumelhart, David E., McClelland, James L., y PDP Research Group (1986). Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations of the Microstructure of Cognition (Vols. 1 y 2). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Smolensky, Paul (1988). On the Proper Treatment of Connectionism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, 1-74.
Sutton, John (2010). Exograms and Interdisciplinarity: History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process. En Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind (pp. 189-225). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Theiner, Georg, Allen, Colin, y Goldstone, Robert L. (2010). Recognizing Group Cognition. Cognitive Systems Research, 11(4), 378-395.
Vaesen, Krist (2011). Giere’s (In)Appropriation of Distributed Cognition. Social Epistemology, 25(4), 379-391.
Wilson, Robert A. (2010). Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist. En Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind (pp. 167-188). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Francesco , F. ., & MARTÍNEZ MANRIQUE, F. . (2021). Distributed Cognition: Between the Individual and the Social. ArtefaCToS. Revista De Estudios Sobre La Ciencia Y La tecnología, 10(1), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.14201/art20211012134
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