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Backdrop -- A short primer on situated cognition / Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede -- Scientific antecedents of situated cognition / William J. Clancey -- Philosophical antecedents of situated cognition / Shaun Gallagher -- Conceptual foundations -- How to situate cognition : letting nature take its course / Robert A. Wilson and Andy Clark -- Why the mind is still in the head / Fred Adams and Kenneth Aizawa -- Innateness and the situated mind / Robert Rupert -- Situated representation / Mark Rowlands -- Dynamics, control, and cognition / Chris Eliasmith -- Explanation : mechanism, modularity, and situated cognition / William Bechtel -- Embedded rationality / Ruth Millikan -- Empirical developments -- Situated perception and sensation in vision and other modalities : from an active to a sensorimotor account / Erik Myin and Kevin O'Regan -- Spatial cognition : embodied and situated / Barbara Tversky -- Remembering / John Sutton -- Situating concepts / Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Problem-solving and situated cognition / David Kirsh -- The dynamic interactions between situations and decisions / Jerome R. Busemeyer, Ryan K. Jessup, and Eric Dimperio -- Situating rationality : ecologically rational decision making with simple heuristics / Henry Brighton and Peter M. Todd -- Situativity and learning / R. Keith Sawyer and James G. Greeno -- Language in the brain, body, and world / Rolf A. Zwaan and Michael P. Kaschak -- Language processing embodied and embedded / Michael Spivey and Daniel Richardson -- Situated semantics / Varol Akman -- Is consciousness embodied? / Jesse J. Prinz -- Emotions in the wild : the situated perspective on emotion / Paul Griffiths and Andrea Scarantino -- The social context of cognition / Eliot R. Smith and Frederica R. Conrey -- Cognition for culture / Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken -- Neuroethology : from morphological computation to planning / Malcolm A. MacIver.

Since its inception some fifty years ago, cognitive science has seen a number of sea changes. Perhaps the best known is the development of connectionist models of cognition as an alternative to classical, symbol-based approaches. A more recent - and increasingly influential - trend is that of dynamical-systems-based, ecologically oriented models of the mind. Researchers suggest that a full understanding of the mind will require systematic study of the dynamics of interaction between mind, body, and world. Some argue that this new orientation calls for a revolutionary new metaphysics of mind, according to which mental states and processes, and even persons, literally extend into the environment. This book is a guide to this movement in cognitive science. Each chapter tackles either a specific area of empirical research or specific sector of the conceptual foundation underlying this research.