Catching ourselves in the act : situated activity, interactive emergence, evolution, and human thought / Horst Hendriks-Jansen.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index.

Situated robotics, natural selection, and cultural scaffolding: The ingredients of a historical explanation -- Computers, models and theories -- Internal representation and natural selection: Epistemological and ontological strains in the cignitive approach -- Connectionism: Its promise and limitations as currently conceived -- Scientific explanation of behavior: The approach through formal task definition -- Scientific explanation of behavior: The logic of evolution and learning -- Toward a working definition of activity: Recent developments in AI that try to come to terms with the S-Domain -- An examination of alternative conceptual frameworks for autonomous agent research -- Models of behavior selection -- A new type of model -- Ethology: The basic concepts and " Orienting Attitudes " -- Critiques and modifications of the basic concepts of Ethology -- Ethological explanations of the integration of activity patterns -- The explanatory relation of the integration of activity patterns -- The explanatory relation between ethology and autonomous agent research -- Species-Typical activity patterns of human infants -- Language and the emergence of intentionality -- Situated activity, cultural scaffolding, and acts -- An explanatory framework that reconciles biology and culture -- Index.

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