External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive Extensions
Attempts to account for the significance of materiality for cognition should pay special attention to the vehicle in which meaning and information are embedded. Distributed cognition pays surprisingly little attention to conceptualizing the distinction between transitory and durable representations....
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Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
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| description | Attempts to account for the significance of materiality for cognition should pay special attention to the vehicle in which meaning and information are embedded. Distributed cognition pays surprisingly little attention to conceptualizing the distinction between transitory and durable representations. I use the example of David Kirsh’s research to argue that the bias toward defining cognitive extensions in terms of stable objects existing in space leads to their reification. The aim of this paper is to indicate the sources of reification and argue that implicit ambiguity emerges toward external representations due to an over-reified view of cognitive extensions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9232137455a14ee1a70d5d9196d9a0b52023-12-02T14:18:04ZengMaria Curie-Sklodowska UniversityAvant2082-67102017-08-018122922410.26913/80102017.0101.0014External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive ExtensionsMarcin TrybulecAttempts to account for the significance of materiality for cognition should pay special attention to the vehicle in which meaning and information are embedded. Distributed cognition pays surprisingly little attention to conceptualizing the distinction between transitory and durable representations. I use the example of David Kirsh’s research to argue that the bias toward defining cognitive extensions in terms of stable objects existing in space leads to their reification. The aim of this paper is to indicate the sources of reification and argue that implicit ambiguity emerges toward external representations due to an over-reified view of cognitive extensions.http://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/Trybulec-M-External-Representations.pdfexternal representationscognitive extensionscognitive artifactsdistributed cognitionreificationtransient representationsdurable representations |
| spellingShingle | Marcin Trybulec External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive Extensions Avant external representations cognitive extensions cognitive artifacts distributed cognition reification transient representations durable representations |
| title | External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive Extensions |
| title_full | External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive Extensions |
| title_fullStr | External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive Extensions |
| title_full_unstemmed | External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive Extensions |
| title_short | External Representations Reconsidered: Against the Reification of Cognitive Extensions |
| title_sort | external representations reconsidered against the reification of cognitive extensions |
| topic | external representations cognitive extensions cognitive artifacts distributed cognition reification transient representations durable representations |
| url | http://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/Trybulec-M-External-Representations.pdf |
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