Thinking Through Tools: What Can Tool-Use Tell Us About Distributed Cognition?

In this paper, I question the notion that tool-use must be driven by an internal representation which specifies the “motor program” enacted in the behaviour of the tool-user. Rather, it makes more sense to define tool-use in terms of characteristics of the dynamics of this behaviour. As the behaviou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baber Chris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-06-01
Series:Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0018