David Kirsh
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Kirsh is involved.
Articles
2014 The importance of chance and interactivity in creativity Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture, Malafouris, Lambros, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann (eds.), pp. 5–26 | Article
Individual creativity is standardly treated as an ‘internalist’ process occurring solely in the head. An alternative, more interactionist view is presented here, where working with objects, media and other external things is seen as a fundamental component of creative thought. The value of chance… read more
2008 Distributed cognition: A methodological note Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds, Dror, Itiel E. and Stevan Harnad (eds.), pp. 57–69 | Article
Humans are closely coupled with their environments. They rely on being ‘embedded’ to help coordinate the use of their internal cognitive resources with external tools and resources. Consequently, everyday cognition, even cognition in the absence of others, may be viewed as partially distributed. As… read more
2006 Distributed cognition: A methodological note Distributed Cognition, Harnad, Stevan and Itiel E. Dror (eds.), pp. 249–262 | Article
Humans are closely coupled with their environments. They rely on being ‘embedded’ to help coordinate the use of their internal cognitive resources with external tools and resources. Consequently, everyday cognition, even cognition in the absence of others, may be viewed as partially distributed. As… read more