Welcome to post-cognitivism.com

Now the workshop is over, the website will serve a number of related functions. The pages on the left have been set up to:

• Report on the workshop

• Report on an associated previous conference

• Report on any recent or forthcoming events in this area that people want to tell us about

• Reference key texts in the general post-cognitivist area

In this way, it is hoped that the website might chart events and literature which underline the growing critique in cognitive science and related disciplines of the cognitivist/classicist view of mind (which focuses on internal cognitive processes via a computer mataphor complete with input, output and symbolic representation).

There are many other sites (see links) where accounts of cognitivism and its problems can be accessed or discussed. The primary goal of this site is to detail events (e.g. conferences, seminars, new centres, methodological progress) or literature (especially new texts) which arise from ideas like the following (which are shamelessly simplified and by no means exhaustive):

Embodied Cognition: emphasis on the role of real time interactions between organism and environment

Situated cognition: rule-based models of behaviour cannot account for contextualised learning

Distributed cognition: emphasis on the social or co-ordinated aspects to cognition

Enactivism: involves a critical stance on representation and dualism

The developing literature page will no doubt involve some glaring (and not so glaring) omissions, so please help to keep the site relevant by pointing these out, or by commenting on any other aspect of the site.