Table of Contents

Part I. Backdrop: 1. A short primer on situated cognition Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede; 2. Scientific antecedents of situated cognition William J. Clancey; 3. Philosophical antecedents of situated cognition Shaun Gallagher; Part II. Conceptual Foundations: 4. How to situate cognition: letting nature take its course Robert A. Wilson and Andy Clark; 5. Why the mind is still in the head Fred Adams and Kenneth Aizawa; 6. Innateness and the situated mind Robert Rupert; 7. Situated representation Mark Rowlands; 8. Dynamics, control, and cognition Chris Eliasmith; 9. Explanation: mechanism, modularity, and situated cognition William Bechtel; 10. Embedded rationality Ruth Millikan; Part III. Empirical Developments: 11. Situated perception and sensation in vision and other modalities: from an active to a sensorimotor account Erik Myin and Kevin O'Regan; 12. Spaces of thought Barbara Tversky; 13. Remembering John Sutton; 14. Situating concepts Lawrence W. Barsalou; 15. Problem-solving and situated cognition David Kirsh; 16. The dynamic interactions between situations and decisions Jerome R. Busemeyer, Ryan K. Jessup and Eric Dimperio; 17. Situating rationality: ecologically rational decision making with simple heuristics Henry Brighton and Peter M. Todd; 18. Situativity and learning R. Keith Sawyer and James G. Greeno; 19. Language in the brain, body, and world Rolf A. Zwaan and Michael P. Kaschak; 20. Language processing embodied and embedded Michael Spivey and Daniel Richardson; 21. Situated semantics Varol Akman; 22. Is consciousness embodied? Jesse J. Prinz; 23. Emotions in the wild: the situated perspective on emotion Paul Griffiths and Andrea Scarantino; 24. The social context of cognition Eliot R. Smith and Frederica R. Conrey; 25. Cognition for culture Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken; 26. Neuroethology: from morphological computation to planning Malcolm A. MacIver.