From Complexity to Clarity: Confronting Situated Cognition’s Motley Crew Argument
Adaptive Behavior: Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Published online on May 31, 2026
Abstract
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print.
This article confronts a core challenge within 4E research: the “motley crew argument.” According to this argument, the scientific credibility of 4E research is diminished because the range of factors considered constitutive of a cognitive phenomenon ...
This article confronts a core challenge within 4E research: the “motley crew argument.” According to this argument, the scientific credibility of 4E research is diminished because the range of factors considered constitutive of a cognitive phenomenon ...