Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought

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23x14cm, xii,367 pp, Series: Complex Adaptive Systems. Contents: Situated Robotics, Natural Selection & Cultural Scaffolding: The Ingredients of a Historical Explanation; Computers, Models & Theories; Internal Representation & Natural Selection: Epistemological & Ontological Strains in the Cognitive Approach; Connectionism: Its Promise & Limitations as Currently Conceived; Scientific Explanation of Behavior: The Approach Through Formal Task Definition; Scientific Explanation of Behavior: The Logic of Evolution & Learning; Toward a Working Definition of Activity: Recent Developments in AI That Try to Come to Terms with the S-Domain; An Examination of Alternative Conceptual Frameworks for Autonomous Agent Research; Models of Behavior Selection; A New Type of Model; Ethology: The Basic Concepts & "Orienting Attitudes"; Critiques & Modifications of the Basic Concepts of Ethology; Ethological Explanations of the Integration of Activity Patterns; The Explanatory Relation between Ethology & Autonomous Agent Research; Species-Typical Activity Patterns of Human infants; Language & the Emergence of Intentionality; Situated Activity, Cultural Scaffolding & Acts; An Explanatory Framework that Reconclies Biology & Culture. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.

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Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought

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MIT Press (1996), Cambridge [MA]

Fecha de publicación

1996

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orig. cloth

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• Philosophical Anthropology