Sticky attunements : on the relationship between organisms and their environments
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation I make a case, and provide tools for, an approach to cognition that takes seriously the human mind's evolved nature. Specifically, I argue that interaction with the environment in ways that are biologically beneficial to an organism is a central feature of cognition. I capture this phenomenon in the theoretical notion of attunement that I define in its passive and active form. I argue that theories of cognition that attempt to explain how the mind works must be compatible with capacities that feature in a `dealing with' of the environment---a phenomenon I call environmentally-oriented competence. Moreover, I make the case for the gradual evolution of cognitive capacities from our nonhuman ancestors to us humans, and I argue that as a result we should be highly parsimonious in positing cognitive mechanisms to explain cognitive phenomena.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Kreitmair, Karola |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy. |
| Primary advisor | Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019 |
| Thesis advisor | Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019 |
| Thesis advisor | Crimmins, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Perry, John R |
| Advisor | Crimmins, Mark |
| Advisor | Perry, John R |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Karola Kreitmair. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Karola Veronika Kreitmair
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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