Post-Cognitivist Psychology

Alternatives to the classical cognitivist position on cognition, i.e. symbolic information-processing representational models, are becoming increasingly important. These alternatives embrace, for example, enactive systems and emphasize situated and embodied cognition typically using dynamical, emergent, and self-organization models.

Progress in non-cognitivist approaches has been made in many different fields, ranging from psychology, through artificial cognitive systems, to artificial life. The following are some links to relevant websites concerned with post-cognitivist psychology.


euCognition Workshop: Models of Thought - Post-Cognitivist Epistemologies Munich, 20-21 February 2008

    20 February: Invited Speakers
Brendan Wallace and Alastair Ross:   Munich Unconference Introduction
Michael Wheeler, University of Stirling:   Thrown Machines: Fixing Heideggerian AI
Max Velmans, Goldmans, London:   How Enactivism Relates to Reflexive Monism
  
  21 February: Audience Participation
Fred Cummins:   Beyond the Individual
Juan Escasany:   Naturalizing Cognitive Sciences
Andrej Lucny:   Can information entropy help to formalize cognition (to evaluate particular models)?
Paco Calvo Garzon:   Post-cognitivist Rules
Pavel Petrovic:   Incremental Evolutionary Methods for Automatic Programming of Robot Controllers


Post-Cognitivist Psychology Conference Website University of Strathclyde, UK, 2005.

Abstracts of the papers presented at this conference can be found here (pdf 683 kb).

A book based on these papers has been published by Imprint Press in 2007.