Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?

Editors

Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez | UNESP Marília

Willem F.G. Haselager | Radboud University

Itiel E. Dror | Southampton University

[Pragmatics & Cognition, 15:3] 2007. 224 pp.

Publishing status: Available

Table of Contents

Call for papers	405–406
Mechanicism and autonomy: What can robotics teach us about human cognition and action? Willem F.G. Haselager and Maria Eunice Q. Gonzalez	407–412
Articles
A sense of presence Andy Clark	413–433
Social cognition and social robots Shaun Gallagher	435–453
A biosemiotic note on organisms, animals, machines, cyborgs, and the quasi-autonomy of robots Claus Emmeche	455–483
Autonomous agency, AI, and allostasis: A biomimetic perspective Ioan Muntean and Cory D. Wright	485–513
Robotics, biological grounding and the Fregean tradition Marti Hooijmans and Fred Keijzer	515–546
Aristotle, autonomy and the explanation of behaviour Carlos Herrera Pérez and Tom Ziemke	547–571
Mechanism is not enough Mark H. Bickhard	573–585
Discussion
Whence the autonomy? A response to Harnad and Dror Alexander Kravchenko	587–597
Maturana’s autopoietic hermeneutics versus Turing’s causal methodology for explaining cognition Stevan Harnad	599–603
Book reviews
Review of Lumelsky (2006): Sensing, Intelligence, Motion: How Robots and Humans Move in an Unstructured World Reviewed by Ademar Ferreira	605–609
Review of Pfeifer & Bongard (2007): How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence Reviewed by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.	610–614
Contents of Volume 15	615–617
Errata	619

Subjects

CF: Linguistics

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General