Immaterial engagement: human agency and the cognitive ecology of the internet
| Autor: | Robert W. Clowes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Philosophy of mind
Cognitive science Cognitive ecology Cognitive technology business.industry Cognitive Neuroscience 05 social sciences Agency (philosophy) Cloud computing Cognition 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Philosophy 060302 philosophy 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences The Internet business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 18:259-279 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8676 1568-7759 |
| Popis: | While 4E cognitive science is fundamentally committed to recognising the importance of the environment in making sense of cognition, its interest in the role of artefacts seems to be one of its least developed dimensions. Yet the role of artefacts in human cognition and agency is central to the sorts of beings we are. Internet technology is influencing and being incorporated into a wide variety of our cognitive processes. Yet the dominant way of viewing these changes sees technology as an outside force “impacting” on our minds. Within this context, Material Engagement Theory (MET) seems well poised to help make sense of our cognitive involvement with the Internet as MET is precisely concerned with grasping the role of material culture in human cognition. This paper explores some of the resources MET provides to think through the effects the internet is having on human agency. This paper uses MET as a starting point for examining the way Internet technology can be involved with human agency, both to the provide a much needed and more adequate theorization of these phenomena, but also to illustrate ways in which the consideration of artefacts can be given a more central and adequate place within the 4E cognitive sciences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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