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Title

The pragmatic turn : toward action-oriented views in cognitive science / edited by Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston, and Danica Kragic.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Engel, Andreas K.
• Friston, K. J. (Karl J.)
• Kragic, Danica
• Ernst Strüngmann Forum (17th : 2014 : Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Description

xi, 418 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Strüngmann forum reports

Uniform Title

Strüngmann Forum reports.

Subject

• Cognition
• Sensorimotor integration
• Action theory
• Cognitive science
• Cognition > physiology

Note

• "This volume is the result of the 17th Ernst Strüngmann Forum, held March 16-21, 2014, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-409) and index.

Contents

Introduction : where's the action? / Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston, and Danica Kragic -- [Part I.] Development, acquisition, and adaptation of action-oriented processing. The contribution of pragmatic skills to cognition and its development : common perspectives and disagreements / Giovanni Pezzulo -- The development of action cognition / Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Victoria Southgate, and Elisabeth Hill -- Acting up : an approach to the study of cognitive development / Giovanni Pezzulo and [11 others] -- [Part II.] Action-oriented models of cognitive processing. Can cognition be reduced to action? : processes that mediate stimuli and responses make human action possible / Lawrence W. Barsalou -- The mindful filter : free energy and action / Karl J. Friston -- Prediction, agency, and body ownership / Jakob Hohwy -- Sensorimotor contingencies and the dynamical creation of structural relations underlying percepts / Jürgen Jost -- Language, action, interaction : neuropragmatic perspectives on symbols, meaning, and context-dependent function / Friedemann Pulvermüller -- Action-oriented models of cognitive processing : a little less cogitation, a little more action please / James Kilner and [11 others] -- [Part III.] Action-oriented understanding of consciousness and the structure of experience. Extending sensorimotor contingencies to cognition / Alexander Maye and Andreas K. Engel -- What's the use of consciousness? : how the stab of conscience made us really conscious / Chris D. Frith and Thomas Metzinger -- Pragmatism and the pragmatic turn in cognitive science / Richard Menary -- Consciousness in action : the unconscious parallel present optimized by the conscious sequential projected future / Paul F.M.J. Verschure -- Action-oriented understanding of consciousness and the structure of experience / Anil K. Seth and [11 others] -- [Part IV.] Implications of action-oriented paradigm shifts in cognitive science. Do we (or our brains) actively represent or enactively engage with the world? / Shaun Gallagher -- Ways of action science / Wolfgang Prinz -- Learning action-perception cycles in robotics : a question of representations and embodiment / Jeannette Bohg and Danica Kragic -- Action-oriented cognition and its implications : contextualizing the new science of mind / Tony J. Prescott and Paul F.M.J. Verschure -- Implications of action-oriented paradigm shifts in cognitive science / Peter F. Dominey and [9 others].

ISBN

• 9780262034326
• 0262034328

LCCN

• 2015048280
• 99971891820
• 40026188987

OCLC

• ocn936430247
• 936430247
• SCSB-5886328

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries