Stevan Harnad

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stevan Harnad is involved.

Titles

Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds

Edited by Itiel E. Dror and Stevan Harnad

Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate, allowing us to do… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 16] 2008. xiii, 258 pp.

Distributed Cognition

Edited by Stevan Harnad and Itiel E. Dror

Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been distributed for millions of years – for as long as our species has had language and tools to help us interact and collaborate and achieve far more than any of us could have done individually. But something radically new is happening to distributed… read more

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) 268 pp.

Articles (8) | Order by:

Massé, Alexandre Blondin, Stevan Harnad, Olivier Picard and Bernard St-Louis 2013 Symbol grounding and the origin of language: From show to tell New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 279–298 | Article

Organisms’ adaptive success depends on being able to do the right thing with the right kind of thing. This is categorization. Most species can learn categories (1) by direct experience (“induction”). Only human beings can learn categories (2) by word of mouth (“instruction”). Artificial-life… read more

Dror, Itiel E. and Stevan Harnad 2008 Offloading cognition onto cognitive technology Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds, Dror, Itiel E. and Stevan Harnad (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article

Harnad, Stevan 2007 Maturana’s autopoietic hermeneutics versus Turing’s causal methodology for explaining cognition Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?, Quilici Gonzalez, Maria Eunice, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror (eds.), pp. 599–603 | Article

Kravchenko (2007) suggests replacing Turing’s suggestion for explaining cognizers’ cognitive capacity through autonomous robotic modelling by ‘autopoiesis’, Maturana’s extremely vague metaphor for the relations and interactions among organisms, environments, and various subordinate and… read more

Harnad, Stevan 2007 Distributed processes, distributed cognizers and collaborative cognition Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition, Dror, Itiel E. (ed.), pp. 47–59 | Article

Cognition is thinking; it feels like something to think, and only those who can feel can think. There are also things that thinkers can do. We know neither how thinkers can think nor how they are able to do what they can do. We are waiting for cognitive science to discover how. Cognitive science… read more

Harnad, Stevan and Itiel E. Dror 2006 Distributed cognition: Cognizing, autonomy and the Turing Test Distributed Cognition, Harnad, Stevan and Itiel E. Dror (eds.), pp. 209–213 | Article

Some of the papers in this Special Issue distribute cognition between what is going on inside individual cognizers’ heads and their outside worlds; others distribute cognition among different individual cognizers. Turing’s criterion for cognition was for individual, autonomous input/output capacity. read more

Harnad, Stevan 2005 Distributed processes, distributed cognizers, and collaborative cognition Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition, Dror, Itiel E. (ed.), pp. 501–514 | Article

Harnad, Stevan 2002 Turing indistinguishability and the blind watchmaker Consciousness Evolving, Fetzer, James H. (ed.), pp. 3–18 | Article

Cangelosi, Angelo and Stevan Harnad 2001 The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories The Evolution of Grounded Communication, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 117–142 | Article