There are many theories useful for framing collaborative-learning research and they may in principle be irreducible to a single theory. Collaborativelearning research explores questions involving numerous distinct—though interacting—phenomena at multiple levels of description. The useful approach may be to clearly distinguish levels such as individual, small-group and community units of analysi...

In his overlooked 1955 book, The Phenomenology of Moral Experience, Maurice Mandelbaum presented a nuanced moral phenomenology, on the basis of which he defended a kind of moral objectivism, specifically moral realism, against the sorts of non-objectivist views in ethics that were popular in analytic philosophy in the 1940s and early 1950s. A central feature of Mandelbaum's moral phenom-enology...

There are three paradigms of HCI: Human-Factors, Classical Cognitivism/Information Processing Based and the Third/Phenomenologically-Situated Paradigm. Each of these paradigms represents a world-view and encompasses a set of practices and expectations for the value and contribution of research. Each contributes to HCI, but in different ways. The first two are not particularly controversial in t...

This paper aims to vindicate the thesis that cognitive computational properties are abstract objects implemented in physical systems. I avail of the equivalence relations countenanced in Homotopy Type Theory, in order to specify an abstraction principle for intensional, computational properties. The homotopic abstraction principle for intensional mental functions provides an epistemic conduit i...

The dominant reception among regulatory bodies of people's emotional responses towards foods is that these responses are a nuisance for rational opinion-formation and decisionmaking in the field of agricultural and food politics. This position is thought to be supported by such evidence as 1) people showing negative emotional responses to the idea of eating meat products from vaccinated livesto...

The purpose of this chapter is to assess the future of Cultural Linguistics (see Chapter 32 this volume) as a tool for exploring a variety of linguistic phenomena along with their intra-group and inter-group cultural instantiations. As a subfield of linguistics, Cultural Linguistics has the potential to bring forth a model that successfully melds together complementary approaches, e.g., viewing...

This paper introduces a new, expanded range of relevant cognitive psychological research on collaborative recall and social memory to the philosophical debate on extended and distributed cognition. We start by examining the case for extended cognition based on the complementarity of inner and outer resources, by which neural, bodily, social, and environmental resources with disparate but comple...

A popular conception in the mind/brain sciences today is the metaphor of the brain as a computer. According to the computational theory of mind, all relevant cognition consists of executing some welldefined rules over representations which model (and have a direct correspondence to) the external world (Chalmers, 1996). I would like to challenge this notion and advocate a pluralistic/biological ...

Students of psychology are taught to regard the Representational Theory of Mind as a relatively new invention, attached to the rise of modern computer technologies. Yet, as Jerry Fodor—for once—rightly pointed out, “insofar as the Representational Theory of Mind is the content of the computer metaphor, the computer metaphor predates the computer by about three hundred years” (Fodor, 1981, p. 14...