Stephen J Cowley

Datos Biográficos

ID907771
NOMBREStephen J Cowley
NOMBRESStephen J
APELLIDOCowley
FIRMACOWLEY S J
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Southern Denmark
ORCID0000-0002-5374-9889
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS46
TOTAL DE CITAS173
TOTAL COMO AUTOR46
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1994
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H9

  • Languaging and large language models

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLEAI & Society2026

    The paper takes a radical linguistic perspective on languaging and LLMs. Just as people draw on languaging alone and together, we make/construe aggregates of punctuation, font, alphanumerics, etc. In the paper, first, I use case studies to track human use of aggregated patternings (APs) based on careful coordinating, stance-taking, attending and use of judgements. Later, I contrast this with how LLMs generate APs that set off epistemic and commun…

  • Ecolinguistics, thick and thin

    Open AccessStephen J Cowley, Stephen id_orcid Cowley et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2026

    Inspired by working for life sustaining relations by linking the global and local, the paper focuses on a Kosovo initiative. There, influenced by ecolinguistics, a civic organization is working to improve the local river world. First, we sketch how the initiative began by making econarratives that were used to specify desiderata. Next, in counterpoint, we sketch the ontological focus of a large European project. Whereas local actors highlight wha…

  • Doing agency

    Open AccessStephen J Cowley, Stephen CowleyARTICLEAI & Society2025

  • How Expertise is Enabled

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLESocial Epistemology2024

    Rather than ask if expertise is under threat, this paper uses case studies to show how expertise is enabled. Its appearance can be traced to how the already known evokes sensibility, judging, thinking and languaging. As defined below, it draws on epistemic cycles. Using Secchi and Cowley’s (2021) 3M model, this posits a second cut between the micro and the macro. In the mesosphere, people create temporary domains or what William James (1991) call…

  • Other orientation

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLELanguage Sciences2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 21

    In honouring Per Linell's achievements, I pursue how dialogue was traced back to praxis. Hence, I begin with how, countering generative theory as overblown, Linell found a hard middle way and, thus, adopted a modest realism. In early work, he traced phonology to what can be heard and, later, diagnosed exclusive emphasis on things or rules as written language bias. Since much depends on how we speak, verbalizing derives, in part, from the influenc…

  • Made in Languaging; Ecolinguistic Expertise

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLELanguages2024Referencias: 57

    Made in languaging aims to help ecolinguists with recrafting ideation and human practices. Inspired by Alexander and Stibbe, I turn to how ecolinguistic expertise can favour life-sustaining relations. In approaching normative goals, I start with how knowledge is made, self-sustains and is disseminated. Ecolinguistic analysis of languages, discourse and narratives can thus be enriched by tracing how practices inform languaging. In turning to epist…

  • Living the duty of care

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLEChinese Semiotic Studies2023

    New hope can draw on anti-humanist duty of care. Turning from debate about how one ought to act in discursively produced “realities,” Paul Cobley advocates a bioethics of living in semiotic fields. Thanks to observership, humans can make good use of both the known and how things appear as signs . For Cobley, the latter are “mind independent.” Once deemed real , semiosis can unite the lawful, the perceivable and, at least, some of the unknown. How…

  • Simplexifying

    Stephen J Cowley, Rasmus Gahrn-AndersenARTICLEChinese Semiotic Studies2022

    Looking beyond the internalism–externalism debate, we offer a distributed view of how experience can garner linguistic and mental content. To make the case, first, we challenge the idea that cognition is organism-centered and synchronistic. Instead, we use Berthoz’s principle of “simplexity” to open up the multiscalarity of cognitive ecosystems. In exemplifying wide cognition, we track how the eyeball’s neurophysiology is transformed by simplex t…

  • Autonomous technologies in human ecologies

    Open AccessRasmus Gahrn-Andersen, Stephen J CowleyARTICLEAI & Society2022

  • Drones, robots and perceived autonomy

    Open AccessStephen J Cowley, Rasmus Gahrn-AndersenARTICLEAI & Society2022

  • Organizational Cognition

    Davide Secchi, Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen et al.BOOKOrganizational Cognition2022

  • Reading

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLELanguage Sciences2021Referencias: 26

  • Simplexity, languages and human languaging

    Open AccessStephen J Cowley, Rasmus Gahrn-AndersenARTICLELanguage Sciences2019

  • The Return ofLanguaging

    Stephen J CowleyARTICLEChinese Semiotic Studies2019Citada por: 10Referencias: 16

    Linguistics is currently being transformed. In relating this to the return of languaging, I link the concept's genealogy with all of its major applications. Crucially, human understanding becomes social and subjective and, thus, incompatible with linguistic theories that focus on individual knowledge of entities like languages, usage or forms of language use. As in Elizabethan times, understanding is part of socially organized practice. In leavin…

  • Evolution, lineages and human language

    Open AccessStephen J Cowley, Angelos Markos et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 19

  • Breathing life into social presence

    Marie-Theres Fester-Seeger, Marie-Theres Fester et al.ARTICLEPragmatics and Society2018

    Whilst many studies focus on human-to-media interactions, this paper turns to how a multimodal medium contributes to human-to-human interaction. By bringing together both radical embodied cognitive science ( Chemero 2009 ) and dialogism ( Linell 2009 ), the paper develops an anti-representationalist approach to the concept of social presence. We use an exploratory study of close friendships that maintain their interaction through the use of the m…

  • Modeling Organizational Cognition

    Open AccessDavide Secchi, Stephen J CowleyARTICLEJournal of Artificial Societies…2018

    This article o ers an alternative perspective on organizational cognition based on e-cognition whereby appeal to systemic cognition replaces the traditional computational model of the mind that is still extremely popular in organizational research. It uses information processing, not to explore inner processes, but as the basis for pursuing organizational matters. To develop a theory of organizational cognition, the current work presents an agent…

  • Life and language

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLELanguage Sciences2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 35

  • Phenomenology & Sociality

    Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen, Stephen J CowleyARTICLEIntellectica Revue de l…2017Citada por: 3

    Although cognitive science has recently asked how human sociality is constituted, there is no clear and consistent account of the emergence of human style social agency. Previously, we have critiqued views based on ''participatory sensemaking'' by arguing that agency requires a distinctive kind of phenomenology that enables a diachronic social experience. In advancing the positive argument, we link developmental psychology to phenomenological ins…

  • Changing the idea of language

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLELanguage Sciences2017Citada por: 10Referencias: 29

  • Deflating Autonomy

    Stephen J Cowley, Rasmus Gahrn-AndersenARTICLEIntellectica Revue de l…2015

    Modérer l’autonomie : l’interactivité humaine dans un monde social émergeant. Cet article présente une critique de certaines tentatives énactivistes récentes qui cherchent à surmonter le hiatus épistémologique entre l’individuel et le social (c’est-à-dire à combler l’écart entre le macro-et le micro). La thèse centrale de l’article est qu’une vision démesurément enflé de «l’autonomie » ne peut qu’induire en erreur. L’examen de deux contributions …

  • Bio-ecology and language

    Stephen J CowleyARTICLELanguage Sciences2014Citada por: 10Referencias: 26

  • Naturalizing language

    Open AccessStephen J CowleyARTICLEAI & Society2013

  • Linguistic fire and human cognitive powers

    Stephen J CowleyARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition2012

    To view language as a cultural tool challenges much of what claims to be linguistic science while opening up a new people-centred linguistics. On this view, how we speak, think and act depends on, not just brains (or minds), but also cultural traditions. Yet, Everett is conservative: like others trained in distributional analysis, he reifies ‘words’. Though rejecting inner languages and grammatical universals, he ascribes mental reality to a lexi…

  • Taking a Language Stance

    Stephen J CowleyARTICLEEcological Psychology2011

    Linguists tend to view language in terms of forms and their use. For historical reasons, speaking and listening are often ascribed to knowledge of a language system. Language behavior is seen as the production and processing of forms. Others contrast language to man-made codes (see Kravchenko, 2007 Kravchenko, A. 2007. Essential properties of language, or, why language is not a code. Language Sciences, 29(5): 650–621. [Crossref], [Web of Science …