Postcognitivism

Psychological movements are considered to be post-cognitivist if they are opposed to or move beyond the cognitivist theories posited by Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, David Marr, and others.

Examples of postcognivist propositions:

• autopoesis
• activity theory
• connectionism
• direct realism
• distributed cognition
• discursive psychology
• dynamicism
• ecological psychology
• embodied cognition
• embodied embedded cognition
• enactivism
• neurophenomenology
• situated cognition
• postcognitive psychology

References

• Costall, A. and Still, A. (eds) (1987) Cognitive Psychology in Question. Brighton: Harvester Press Ltd.
• Costall, A. and Still, A. (eds) (1991) Against Cognitivism: Alternative Foundations for Cognitive Psychology. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
• Potter, J. (2000). "Post cognitivist psychology", Theory and Psychology, 10, 31-37.
• Wallace, B., Ross, A., Davies, J.B., and Anderson, T. (2007) The Mind, The Body and the World: Psychology After Cognitivism. London: Imprint Academic.
• Zielke, B. (2004) Kognition und soziale Praxis: Der Soziale Konstruktionismus und die Perspektiven einer postkognitivistischen Psychologie. Bielefeld: transcript.