Mark H. Bickhard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark H. Bickhard plays a role.
2007 Mechanism is not enough Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?, Quilici Gonzalez, Maria Eunice, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror (eds.), pp. 573–585 | Article
I will argue that mechanism is not sufficient to capture representation, thus cognition. More generally, mechanism is not sufficient to capture normativity of any sort. I will also outline a model of emergent normativity, representational normativity in particular, and show how it transcends these… read more
2003 Some notes on internal and external relations and representation Consciousness & Emotion 4:1, pp. 101–110 | Miscellaneous
2000 Motivation and Emotion: An Interactive Process Model The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology, Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.), pp. 161–178 | Chapter
This chapter outlines dynamic models of motivation and emotion. These turn out not to be autonomous subsystems, but instead are deeply integrated in the basic interactive dynamic character of living systems. Motivation is a crucial aspect of particular kinds of interactive systems — systems for… read more
1997 Is Cognition an Autonomous Subsystem? Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in cognitive science and consciousness, Ó Nualláin, Seán, Paul Mc Kevitt and Eoghan Mac Aogáin (eds.), pp. 115–132 | Article