SOC483Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mit Press, Cognitive Psychology, Edwin Hutchins
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Reading: edwin hutchins, selections from introduction, navigation as computation, chapter 2, the implementation of contemporary pilotage, chapter 3, cultural. Cognition, chapter 9 in cognition in the wild (the mit press, 1995), pp. xi-xiv, 65-67, Hutchins work helps thinking about things beyond the obvious . Hutchins cultural anthropologist by training, studied all sorts of things- our reading is on the study of navigation, worked with us navy ships and on new guinea and then flying and deck operations. Natural because our cognition happens in the wild which reminds you of jean. Lave critique of many studying cognition lave introduced artificial conditions where you cannot really understand cognition as it is artificial and not like real life vs. hutchins adds to lave is that they do not have materials. Also anthropology influenced- in the conclusion hutchins explains where anthropologists coming from reacting to behaviorist tendencies moving to the individual.
