Richard Menary

Biographic Data

ID3844341
NAMERichard Menary
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMEMenary
SIGNATUREMENARY R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wollongong
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • Cognitive Integration: How Culture Transforms Us and Extends Our Cognitive Capabilities

    Richard MenaryCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition2018

    If cognition is fundamentally interactive how did it come to be so? The cognitive integration framework provides an answer: phylogenetically early forms of cognition, in humans, involve sensorimotor interactions with the environment; these are built upon by more recent cultural innovations, which are a product of cultural evolution and niche construction. The key cultural innovations are symbolic representations and the normative cognitive practi…

  • The Aesthetic Niche

    Richard MenaryARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2014Cited by: 4

    Stephen Davies has written a marvellously rich and detailed book. I cannot hope to cover all of the detailed argument in this short response. However, I do want to pick up on a couple of important themes and respond to them with some, I hope, helpful comments. Davies presents convincing arguments against the views of art as an adaptation or as a technology. I share Davies' concerns about some of the arguments regarding the evolution of art, parti…

  • Cognitive Transformations and Extended Expertise

    Richard Menary, Michael D Kirchhoff et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2013Cited by: 6References: 7

    Expertise is extended by becoming immersed in cultural practices. We look at an example of mathematical expertise in which immersion in cognitive practices results in the transformation of expert performance

  • Extended Mind

    Fred Jr Adams, Ken Aizawa et al.BOOKThe extended mind2012

    Leading scholars respond to the famous proposition by Andy Clark and David Chalmers that cognition and mind are not located exclusively in the head. Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper "The Extended Mind," philosophers Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers posed this question and answered it provocatively: cognitive processes "ain't all in the head." The environment has an active role in driving cogniti…

  • Cognitive Integration and the Extended Mind

    Richard MenaryCHAPTERThe extended mind2010

    This chapter delves deeper into the two “waves” of arguments for EM as discussed in the last chapter. The first wave focuses on questions of functional parity between internal and external processes and focuses mainly on the functional role of causal coupling between internal and external vehicles. The second wave, on the other hand, focuses on questions regarding the complementarity of internal and external vehicles and their consequent integrat…

  • Introduction to the special issue on 4E cognition

    Open AccessRichard MenaryARTICLEPhenomenology and the Cognitive…2010

  • The extended mind

    Richard MenaryBOOKThe extended mind2010

    From the publisher. Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper "The Extended Mind," philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers posed this question and answered it provocatively: cognitive processes "ain't all in the head." The environment has an active role in driving cognition; cognition is sometimes made up of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. Their argument excited a vigorous debate among ph…

  • Cognitive Integration: Mind and Cognition Unbounded

    Open AccessJohn Protevi, Richard MenaryBOOKCognitive Integration2007

    This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism. Cognitive systems function through integration of neural and bodily functions with the functions of represen

  • Writing as thinking

    Open AccessRichard MenaryARTICLELanguage Sciences2007Cited by: 24References: 13