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13To Think or Not To Think: The apparent paradox of expert skill in music performanceEducational Philosophy and Theory 46 (6): 674-691. 2014.Expert skill in music performance involves an apparent paradox. On stage, expert musicians are required accurately to retrieve information that has been encoded over hours of practice. Yet they must also remain open to the demands of the ever-changing situational contingencies with which they are faced during performance. To further explore this apparent paradox and the way in which it is negotiated by expert musicians, this article profiles theories presented by Roger Chaffin, Hubert Dreyfus an…Read more
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10Interacting to remember at multiple timescalesInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 16 (3): 419-450. 2015.Everyday joint remembering, from family remembering around the dinner table to team remembering in the operating theatre, relies on the successful interweaving of multiple cognitive, bodily, social and material resources, anchored in specific cultural ecosystems. Such systems for joint remembering in social interactions are composed of processes unfolding over multiple but complementary timescales, which we distinguish for analytic purposes so as better to study their interanimation in practice:…Read more
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11206Self‐Representation and Perspectives in DreamsPhilosophy Compass 8 (11): 1041-1053. 2013.Integrative and naturalistic philosophy of mind can both learn from and contribute to the contemporary cognitive sciences of dreaming. Two related phenomena concerning self-representation in dreams demonstrate the need to bring disparate fields together. In most dreams, the protagonist or dream self who experiences and actively participates in dream events is or represents the dreamer: but in an intriguing minority of cases, self-representation in dreams is displaced, disrupted, or even absent. …Read more
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Mnemicity - A cognitive gadget?Perspectives on Psychological Science 1 (1). 2023.Episodic representations can be entertained either as “remembered” or “imagined”—as outcomes of experience or as simulations of such experience. Here, we argue that this feature is the product of a dedicated cognitive function: the metacognitive capacity to determine the mnemicity of mental event simulations. We argue that mnemicity attribution should be distinguished from other metacognitive operations (such as reality monitoring) and propose that this attribution is a “cognitive gadget”—a dist…Read more
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12Re-tracing the encounter: Interkinaesthetic forms of knowledge in Contact ImprovisationAntropologia E Teatro 7 (7): 226-243. 2016.We adopted a phenomenological approach, directly engaging with the community of practice of the form of movement under study. We discuss some methodological approaches that we considered in investigating the lived experience of a heterogeneous group of Contact Improvisation (CI) practitioners. We delineate how such a system of movement could provide a unique example for the analysis of the interpersonal dynamics between movers with a different degree of expertise, re-tracing some common paths to…Read more
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24Transmitting Passione: Emio Greco and the Ballet National de MarseilleIn Jill Nunes Jensen Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet, Oxford University Press. pp. 594-612. 2021.This work addresses the case of the Ballet National de Marseille (BNM) and the 2017 recreation of the piece Passione, created by the artistic directors Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. This study, informed by a phenomenological approach, adopts ethnographic methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and one researcher’s direct involvement with the practices of enculturation and enskillment in this dance form. It investigates how the dancers of the BNM articulate their div…Read more
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15Ageing Together: Interdependence in the Memory Compensation Strategies of Long-Married Older CouplesFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.People live and age together in social groups. Across a range of outcomes, research has identified interdependence in the cognitive and health trajectories of ageing couples. Various types of memory decline with age and people report using a range of internal and external, social, and material strategies to compensate for these declines. While memory compensation strategies have been widely studied, research so far has focused only on single individuals. We examined interdependence in the memory…Read more
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Multiperspectival Imagery: Sartre and Cognitive Theory on Point of View in Remembering and Imagining.In Jack Reynolds & Ricky Sebold (eds.), Phenomenology and Science, Palgrave-macmillan. 2016.
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Memory and PerspectiveIn Sven Bernecker & Kourken Michaelian (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, Routledge. 2017.
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31Cognition and the Web: Extended, Transactive, or Scaffolded?Erkenntnis 85 (1): 139-164. 2020.In the history of external information systems, the World Wide Web presents a significant change in terms of the accessibility and amount of available information. Constant access to various kinds of online information has consequences for the way we think, act and remember. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have recently started to examine the interactions between the human mind and the Web, mainly focussing on the way online information influences our biological memory systems. In this art…Read more
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65Memory systems and the control of skilled actionPhilosophical Psychology 32 (5): 692-718. 2019.ABSTRACTIn keeping with the dominant view that skills are largely automatic, the standard view of memory systems distinguishes between a representational declarative system associated with cognitive processes and a performance-based procedural system. The procedural system is thought to be largely responsible for the performance of well-learned skilled actions. Here we argue that most skills do not fully automate, which entails that the declarative system should make a substantial contribution t…Read more
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57The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought, by Peter, Carruthers: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xiv + 290, £30 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (3): 621-622. 2017.
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19Dennis Des chene, spirits and clocks: Machine and organism in Descartes. Ithaca and London: Cornell university press, 2001. Pp. XIII+181. Isbn 0-8014-3764-4. 25.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2): 233-235. 2003.
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505Expanding Expertise: Investigating a Musician’s Experience of Music PerformanceASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science 106-113. 2010.Seeking to expand on previous theories, this paper explores the AIR (Applying Intelligence to the Reflexes) approach to expert performance previously outlined by Geeves, Christensen, Sutton and McIlwain (2008). Data gathered from a semi-structured interview investigating the performance experience of Jeremy Kelshaw (JK), a professional musician, is explored. Although JK’s experience of music performance contains inherently uncertain elements, his phenomenological description of an ideal performa…Read more
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200Psyche And Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to EnlightenmentAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (1): 142-144. 2003.Review of Psyche And Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment.
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545Representation, levels, and context in integrational linguistics and distributed cognitionLanguage Sciences (6): 503-524. 2004.Distributed Cognition and Integrational Linguistics have much in common. Both approaches see communicative activity and intelligent behaviour in general as strongly con- text-dependent and action-oriented, and brains as permeated by history. But there is some ten- sion between the two frameworks on three important issues. The majority of theorists of distributed cognition want to maintain some notions of mental representation and computa- tion, and to seek generalizations and patterns in the var…Read more
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377Time, Experience, and Descriptive Experience SamplingJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (1): 118-129. 2011.This rich book, the best I’ve read in consciousness studies, offers more at each encounter. It was a brilliant idea to evaluate Hurlburt’s Descriptive Experience Sampling method through concrete sceptical enquiry by Schwitzgebel, whose role as open-minded but hard-nosed interlocutor makes the debate an intriguing, even gripping read. The radically different views about introspective reports held by the two authors are put to the test in the concrete context of ‘an examination, in unprecedented d…Read more
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20Features of Successful and Unsuccessful Collaborative Memory Conversations in Long‐Married CouplesTopics in Cognitive Science 11 (4): 668-686. 2019.Harris, Barnier, Sutton and Savage examine the communication styles that boost the mnemonic consequences associated with conversations for long‐term married couples and the circumstances under which the couples form a TMS. Harris and colleagues demonstrated that specific communication styles (e.g., cueing each other) promote group memory success whereas others (e.g., correcting each other) did not enhance group recall performance. These results showed that even in well‐established and enduring d…Read more
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1618Cognition and the Web: Extended, transactive, or scaffolded?Erkenntnis 85 (1): 139-164. 2020.In the history of external information systems, the World Wide Web presents a significant change in terms of the accessibility and amount of available information. Constant access to various kinds of online information has consequences for the way we think, act and remember. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have recently started to examine the interactions between the human mind and the Web, mainly focussing on the way online information influences our biological memory systems. In this art…Read more
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1190Collective mental time travel: remembering the past and imagining the future togetherSynthese 196 (12): 4933-4960. 2019.Bringing research on collective memory together with research on episodic future thought, Szpunar and Szpunar :376–389, 2016) have recently developed the concept of collective future thought. Individual memory and individual future thought are increasingly seen as two forms of individual mental time travel, and it is natural to see collective memory and collective future thought as forms of collective mental time travel. But how seriously should the notion of collective mental time travel be tak…Read more
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1Distributed Cognition and Memory Research (special issue) (edited book)Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 2013.
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484Georges Canguilhem, A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem, edited by François Delaporte and translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Zone Books, 1994. Pp. 481. ISBN 0-942299-72-8. £24.25, $36.25 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 30 (1): 101-121. 1997.Georges Canguilhem, A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem, edited by François Delaporte and translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Zone Books, 1994. Pp. 481. ISBN 0-942299-72-8. £24.25, $36.25.
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6090Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to ConnectionismCambridge University Press. 1998.Philosophy and Memory Traces defends two theories of autobiographical memory. One is a bewildering historical view of memories as dynamic patterns in fleeting animal spirits, nervous fluids which rummaged through the pores of brain and body. The other is new connectionism, in which memories are 'stored' only superpositionally, and reconstructed rather than reproduced. Both models, argues John Sutton, depart from static archival metaphors by employing distributed representation, which brings inte…Read more
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8Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes (review)British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2): 233-235. 2003.
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1692Remembering as Public Practice: Wittgenstein, memory, and distributed cognitive ecologiesIn V. A. Munz, D. Moyal-Sharrock & A. Coliva (eds.), Mind, Language, and Action: proceedings of the 36th Wittgenstein symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 409-444. 2014.A woman is listening to Sinatra before work. As she later describes it, ‘suddenly from nowhere I could hear my mother singing along to it … I was there again home again, hearing my mother … God knows why I should choose to remember that … then, to actually hear her and I had this image in my head … of being at home … with her singing away … like being transported back you know I got one of those … like shivery feelings really suddenly’ (Anderson 2004, 9-10). An older couple, discussing their hon…Read more
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227Rene´ DescartesIn Encyclopedia of the life sciences, Macmillan. pp. 383-386. 2001.Descartes was born in La Haye (now Descartes) in Touraine and educated at the Jesuit college of La Fleche` in Anjou. Descartes’modern reputation as a rationalistic armchair philosopher, whose mind–body dualism is the source of damaging divisions between psychology and the life sciences, is almost entirely undeserved. Some 90% of his surviving correspondence is on mathematics and scientific matters, from acoustics and hydrostatics to chemistry and the practical problems of constructing scientific i…Read more
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192Review of Lorraine Daston & Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (review)Times Literary Supplement 5001. 1999.Curious about the nature of light, Robert Boyle spent a series of late nights taking detailed observations of shining veal shanks, stinking fish, pieces of rotten wood which glowed in the dark, and a ‘noctiluca’ distilled from human urine. Once, report Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, with "only a foot-boy" to assist him, Boyle put a luminous diamond to the nocturnal test, "plunging it into oil and acid, spitting on it, and ‘taking it into bed with me, and holding it a good while upon a warm …Read more
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106Batting, habit, and memory: The embodied mind and the nature of skillSport in Society 10 (5): 763-786. 2007.in Jeremy McKenna (ed), At the Boundaries of Cricket, to be published in 2007 as a special issue of the journal Sport in Society and as a book in the series Sport in the Global Society (Taylor and Francis).
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1232We Remember, We Forget: Collaborative Remembering in Older CouplesDiscourse Processes 48 (4): 267-303. 2011.Transactive memory theory describes the processes by which benefits for memory can occur when remembering is shared in dyads or groups. In contrast, cognitive psychology experiments demonstrate that social influences on memory disrupt and inhibit individual recall. However, most research in cognitive psychology has focused on groups of strangers recalling relatively meaningless stimuli. In the current study, we examined social influences on memory in groups with a shared history, who were recall…Read more