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THE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COGNITION
Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics
edited by Wolfgang Tschacher (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Jean-Pierre Dauwalder (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Table of Contents (58k) Foreward (70k) Introduction (194k)
The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is used to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is argued that recent developments in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, have a major impact on behavioral and cognitive science. The book points out that there are two domains that follow naturally from the stance of embodiment: first, coordination dynamics is an established empirical paradigm that is best able to aid the approach; second, the obvious goal-directedness of intelligent action (i.e., intentionality) is nicely addressed in the framework of the dynamical synergetic approach.
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