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Chapter 2 - Scientific Antecedents of Situated Cognition

from Part I - Backdrop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
William J. Clancey
Edited by
Philip Robbins  and
Murat Aydede
Philip Robbins
Affiliation:
Washington University, St Louis
Murat Aydede
Affiliation:
University of Florida
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Summary

This chapter provides an introduction to systems thinking and its application in systems theory. This is followed by a review of the historical context in which a non-systems-thinking perspective developed in the study of intelligence, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) research. Then, the chapter reviews how systems thinking relates to and is manifested in the study of cognition. Next, it summarizes crosscutting themes that constitute the scientific antecedents of situated cognition. Finally, the chapter focuses on recent and continuing dilemmas that foreshadowed the acceptance of situated cognition in the fields of AI and psychology, and suggests prospects for the next scientific advances. The study of animal navigation and social behavior is especially profound for AI and cognitive science because it reveals what simpler mechanisms, that is, fixed programs with perhaps limited learning during maturation, can accomplish.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition , pp. 11 - 34
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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