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Scaling-up behavior settings: an ecological approach to cognitive institutions

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dc.contributor.authorBammel, Moritz
dc.contributor.authorSanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.departmentFilosofía
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-23T11:42:18Z
dc.date.available2026-02-23T11:42:18Z
dc.date.copyright© The Author(s) 2025
dc.date.issued2025-08-07
dc.description.abstractBarker’s notion of behavior settings has been fruitfully used in ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception-action of affordances is socio-culturally co-constituted. In parallel, the notion of cognitive institutions has been introduced in the context of the extended cognition debate to analyze how certain cognitive practices are enabled and shaped by institutional structures that have emerged from previous collective cognitive and social activities. In this paper, we argue that behavior settings and cognitive institutions are complementary notions and we propose a synthesis under the umbrella of ecological psychology. Relative to behavior settings, cognitive institutions can be conceived as yet higher higher-order ecological structures that emerge from and are sustained by active participation in spatio-temporally more widely distributed joint actions and collective cognitive practices. At the same time, cognitive institutions function as more global enabling constraints, relative to behavior settings, over individuals’ perception-action of affordances and families of behavior settings. Incorporating the notion of cognitive institutions into ecological psychology thus enables a more comprehensive analysis of how cognitive practices are socio-culturally co-constituted at various spatio-temporal scales. We conclude that this synthesis opens up opportunities for a critical turn in ecological psychology, supporting the analysis of how cognitive practices are socio-culturally co-constituted on an institutional level for better or worse.
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dc.identifier.citationBammel, M., & Sanches de Oliveira G. (2025). Scaling-up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions. Topoi. DOI: 10.1007/s11245-025-10254-9
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10254-9
dc.identifier.issn0167-7411
dc.identifier.issn1572-8749
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/210481
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relationOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-025-10254-9
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectCognitive institutions
dc.subjectBehavior settings
dc.subjectEcological psychology
dc.subjectSocially extensive cognition
dc.subjectMind shaping
dc.subjectPolitical philosophy of mind
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.titleScaling-up behavior settings: an ecological approach to cognitive institutions
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