David Kirsh
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Kirsh plays a role.
Articles
The importance of chance and interactivity in creativity Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture, Malafouris, Lambros, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann (eds.), pp. 5–26 | Article
2014 Individual creativity is standardly treated as an ‘internalist’ process occurring solely in the head. An alternative, more interactionist view is presented here, where working with objects, media and other external things is seen as a fundamental component of creative thought. The value of chance… read more
Distributed cognition: A methodological note Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds, Dror, Itiel E. and Stevan Harnad (eds.), pp. 57–69 | Article
2008 Humans are closely coupled with their environments. They rely on being ‘embedded’ to help coordinate the use of their internal cognitive resources with external tools and resources. Consequently, everyday cognition, even cognition in the absence of others, may be viewed as partially distributed. As… read more
Distributed cognition: A methodological note Distributed Cognition, Harnad, Stevan and Itiel E. Dror (eds.), pp. 249–262 | Article
2006 Humans are closely coupled with their environments. They rely on being ‘embedded’ to help coordinate the use of their internal cognitive resources with external tools and resources. Consequently, everyday cognition, even cognition in the absence of others, may be viewed as partially distributed. As… read more