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050 00 $aBF311$b.H88 1995
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100 1 $aHutchins, Edwin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80031920
245 10 $aCognition in the wild /$cEdwin Hutchins.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axviii, 381 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-378) and index.
505 0 $a1. Welcome Aboard -- 2. Navigation as Computation -- 3. The Implementation of Contemporary Pilotage -- 4. The Organization of Team Performances -- 5. Communication -- 6. Navigation as a Context for Learning -- 7. Learning in Context -- 8. Organizational Learning -- 9. Cultural Cognition.
520 $aEdwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open-ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships.
520 8 $aThe result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory - "in the wild.".
520 8 $aHutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that differ from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them.
520 8 $aEach action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture; thus the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system.
520 8 $aIntroducing life in the Navy and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he adopts David Marr's paradigm and applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science - cognition as computation - to the navigation task.
520 8 $aAfter comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that involve multiple individuals. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales.
520 8 $a. Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the cultural nature of cognition and points to ways in which contemporary cognitive science can be transformed by new meanings and interpretations.
650 0 $aCognition$xSocial aspects$vCase studies.
650 0 $aCognition and culture$vCase studies.
650 0 $aNavigation$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aPsychology, Naval.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108478
852 00 $bsci$hBF311$i.H88 1995
852 00 $boff,leh$hBF311$i.H88 1995