Collective memory, group minds, and the extended mind thesis Export

@article{citeulike:2906242, abstract = {While memory is conceptualized predominantly as an individual capacity in the cognitive and biological sciences, the social sciences have most commonly construed memory as a collective phenomenon. Collective memory has been put to diverse uses, ranging from accounts of nationalism in history and political science to views of ritualization and commemoration in anthropology and sociology. These appeals to collective memory share the idea that memory ” goes beyond the individual” but often run together quite different claims in spelling out that idea. This paper reviews a sampling of recent work on collective memory in the light of emerging externalist views within the cognitive sciences, and through some reflection on broader traditions of thought in the biological and social sciences that have appealed to the idea that groups have minds. The paper concludes with some thoughts about the relationship between these kinds of cognitive metaphors in the social sciences and our notion of agency.}, author = {Wilson, Robert}, citeulike-article-id = {2906242}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-005-0012-z}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org.monstera.cc.columbia.edu:2048/10.1007/s10339-005-0012-z}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/s10339-005-0012-z}, journal = {Cognitive Processing}, keywords = {collective\_intelligence, distributed\_cognition, extended-mind, memory}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {227--236}, posted-at = {2009-04-21 22:20:24}, priority = {0}, title = {Collective memory, group minds, and the extended mind thesis}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-005-0012-z}, volume = {6}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2906242 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2906242 N2 - While memory is conceptualized predominantly as an individual capacity in the cognitive and biological sciences, the social sciences have most commonly construed memory as a collective phenomenon. Collective memory has been put to diverse uses, ranging from accounts of nationalism in history and political science to views of ritualization and commemoration in anthropology and sociology. These appeals to collective memory share the idea that memory “goes beyond the individual” but often run together quite different claims in spelling out that idea. This paper reviews a sampling of recent work on collective memory in the light of emerging externalist views within the cognitive sciences, and through some reflection on broader traditions of thought in the biological and social sciences that have appealed to the idea that groups have minds. The paper concludes with some thoughts about the relationship between these kinds of cognitive metaphors in the social sciences and our notion of agency. IS - 4 JF - Cognitive Processing EP - 236 TI - Collective memory, group minds, and the extended mind thesis VL - 6 SP - 227 KW - collective_intelligence KW - distributed_cognition KW - extended-mind KW - memory AU - Wilson, Robert PY - 2005/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-005-0012-z ER -