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Zusatztext "An absorbing volume that integrates an extraordinarily wide area of work! with interesting observations and new twists right to the end."Ruth Millikan!University of Connecticut! USA Informationen zum Autor Hajo Greif is Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Ethics in Administration, Warsaw University of Technology. He also works as Senior Researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University of Munich. His research interests cover the philosophy – and some of the history an the social studies – of science and technology, as well as the philosophy of mind. Klappentext What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primarily natural, environmentally embedded in character, which had been eclipsed by information-processing views of cognition. He continues with an inquiry into the cognitive bearing of some artefacts that are sometimes referred to as 'intelligent environments'. Without necessarily having much to do with Artificial Intelligence, such artefacts may ultimately modify our informational environments.With respect to human cognition, the most notable effect of digital computers is not that they might be able, or become able, to think but that they alter the way we perceive, think and act.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence Zusammenfassung What is the role of the environment! and of the information it provides! in cognition? More specifically! may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied! embedded! extended! enactive). In his take on that family of views!Hajo Greiffirst defends and refines a concept of information as primarily natural! environmentally embedded in character! which had been eclipsed by information-processing views of cognition. He continues with an inquiry into the cognitive bearing of some artefacts that are sometimes referred to as 'intelligent environments'. Without necessarily having much to do with Artificial Intelligence! such artefacts may ultimately modify our informational environments.With respect to human cognition! the most notable effect of digital computers is not that they might be able! or become able! to think but that they alter the way we perceive! think and act.The Open Access version of this book! available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867! has been made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence Inhaltsverzeichnis Preliminaries: Ants and Robots, Parlour Games and Steam Drills Background Outline I Informational Environments Resurrecting Dretskean Information Information, Behaviour, and Probability The Content of Natural Information, and Some Discontent Alternative Information Natural Information and the Roots of Intentionality Varieties of Perception Perception as Information Processing: The Computational View Information Specifies Affordances: The Ecological View Perceptual Illusions vs. Misperception: The Empirical Strategy The Domains of Natural Information Natural Information and Reference Classes Informational Domains Resurrection at Last Making an Environment History, Ecology, Environment Adapting Ecologic...
