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Distributed thinking symposium

Distributed thinking symposium. Stephen J. Cowley University of Hertfordshire, UK & University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Human thinking. Language constrains how we think ‘thinking’. Language constrains thinking about thinking.

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Distributed thinking symposium

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  1. Distributed thinking symposium Stephen J. Cowley University of Hertfordshire, UK & University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  2. Human thinking • Language constrains how we think ‘thinking’. • Language constrains thinking about thinking. How do we to construe this? What are the implications for method?

  3. Points of view • Language is symbolic (i.e. can be analysed as verbal units in manifest constructional relations); • Language spreads (i.e crosses bodies, changing what people do in historical space-time).

  4. The DLG • Set out to transform the language sciences in 2005. • Is a community –currently +/-80. • Has held 5 interdisciplinary international meetings –linguistics psychology, robotics, philosophy, sociology, biology.

  5. Dialogical, directed, distributed • First-order language is intrinsic to action and perception. • Can be analysed in terms of second-order language.

  6. Historically, • Cognitive psychology/science took a (purely) symbolic view. • Focus fell on putative mechanisms for (a) language/ speech processing/ production; (b) problem solving (c) working memory; (d) consciousness; (e) etcetera. • Since the 1990s, increasing interest has been given to dynamical, embodied and cultural aspects of cognition.

  7. In rethinking thinking • We concert real-time thinking across artefacts and/or people. • The activities are integrated with silent rehearsal. • What are the results? How are they achieved?

  8. Methodological issues • Let’s re-examine thinking • (a) as an intrinsic part of how we do things (together). • (b) as something that we also do alone. • We call this thinking in action.

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