165
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Book Review

Agency, activity, and biocybernetics: On The Evolution of Agency by Michael Tomasello

References

  • Allakhverdov, V., Filippova, M. G., Gershkovich, V. A., Karpinskaia, V. Y., Scott, T. V., & Vladykina, N. P. (2019). Consciousness, learning, and control: On the path to a theory. In A. Cleeremans, V. Allakhverdov, & M. Kuvaldina (Eds.), Implicit learning: 50 years on (pp. 71–107). Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
  • Baars, B. J. (2005). Global workspace theory of consciousness: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience. Progress in Brain Research, 150, 45–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6123(05)50004-9
  • Bayne, T. (2013). Agency as a marker of consciousness. In A. Clark, J. Kiverstein, & T. Vierkant (Eds.), Decomposing the will. Philosophy of Mind Series (pp. 160–180). Oxford University Press.
  • Bernstein, N. A. (1967). The co-ordination and regulation of movements. Pergamon Press.
  • Broadbent, D. (1958). Perception and communication. Pergamon Press. https://doi.org/10.1037/10037-000
  • Chernavsky, A. V., & Talis, V. L. (2021). On the concept of activity in the last papers of Nikolai Bernstein. Human Movement Science, 80, 102886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2021.102886
  • Engeström, Y. (1987). Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research. Orienta-Konsultit.
  • Falikman, M., & Asmolov, A. (2017). Cognitive psychology of activity: Attention as a constructive process. Revue internationale du CRIRES : innover dans la tradition de Vygotsky, 4(1), 54–62. https://doi.org/10.51657/ric.v4i1.40993
  • Feiten, T. E. (2020). Mind after Uexküll: A foray into the worlds of ecological psychologists and enactivists. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 480. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00480
  • Friston, K. (2018). Does predictive coding have a future? Nature Neuroscience, 21(8), 1019–1021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0200-7
  • Grünbaum, T., & Christensen, M. S. (2020). Measures of agency. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020(1), niaa019. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaa019
  • Haggard, P. (2017). Sense of agency in the human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 18(4), 196–207. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2017.14
  • Hopwood, N. (2022). Agency in cultural-historical activity theory: Strengthening commitment to social transformation. Mind Culture and Activity, 29(2), 108–122. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2022.2092151
  • Kajamaa, A., & Kumpulainen, K. (2019). Young people, digital mediation, and transformative agency, special issue (part 1). Mind Culture and Activity, 26(3), 201–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2019.1652653
  • Keele, S. W., & Neill, W. T. (1978). Mechanisms of attention. In E. C. Carterette & M. P. Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of perception (Vol. 9 pp. 3–47). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-161909-1.50007-4
  • Korshunova, T. A., Vorontsov, D. D., & Dyakonova, V. E. (2016). Previous motor activity affects the transition from uncertainty to decision making in snails. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(22), 3635–3641. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.146837
  • Latash, M. (Ed.). (1998). Progress in motor control: Vol. 1. Bernstein’s traditions in movement studies. Human Kinetics.
  • Leontiev, A. N. (1978). Activity, consciousness, and personality. Prentice-Hall.
  • Leontyev, A. N. (1981). Problems of the development of the mind. Progress Publishers.
  • Lewin, K. (1959). A dynamic theory of personality. McGraw Hill.
  • Malafouris, L. (2008). At the potter’s wheel: An argument for material agency. In C. Knappett & L. Malafouris (Eds.), Material agency: Towards a non-anthropocentric perspective (pp. 19–36). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74711-8_2
  • Malafouris, L. (2013). How things shape the mind: A theory of material engagement. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9476.001.0001
  • Malafouris, L. (2020). Thinking as “thinging”: Psychology with things. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(1), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419873349
  • Moll, H., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Cooperation and human cognition: The Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 362(1480), 639–648. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.2000
  • Packer, M. J., & Cole, M. (2019). Evolution and ontogenesis: The deontic niche of human development. Human Development, 62(4), 175–211. https://doi.org/10.1159/000500172
  • Rosenthal, D. (1986). Two concepts of consciousness. Philosophical Studies, 49(3), 329–359. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355521
  • Schroer, S. A. (2019). Jakob von Uexküll: The concept of Umwelt and its potentials for an anthropology beyond the human. Ethnos, 86(1), 132–152. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1606841
  • Severtsov, A. N. (1990). Evolution and the mind. Soviet Psychology, 28(4), 5–34. https://doi.org/10.2753/RPO1061-040528045
  • Stetsenko, A. (2020). Critical сhallenges in cultural-historical activity theory: The urgency of agency. Кul’turno-Istoricheskaya Psikhologiya (Cultural-Historical Psychology), 16(2), 5–18. https://doi.org/10.17759/chp.2020160202
  • Tomasello, M. (2009). Why we cooperate. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/8470.001.0001
  • Tomasello, M. (2010). Origins of human communication. MIT Press.
  • Tomasello, M. (2022). The evolution of agency: Behavioral organization from lizards to humans. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14238.001.0001
  • Tomasello, M., & Carpenter, M. (2007). Shared intentionality. Developmental Science, 10(1), 121–125. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00573.x
  • Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(5), 675–691. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X05000129
  • Toulmin, S. (1978). The Mozart of psychology. The New York Review of Books, September 28, 51–57.
  • von Uexküll, J. (2010). A foray into the worlds of animals and humans: With a theory of meaning. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind and society: The development of higher psychological processes. Harvard University Press.
  • Wiener, N. (1948). Cybernetics: Or control and communication in the animal and the machine. MIT Press.
  • Zhang, S., Si, A., & Pahl, M. (2012). Visually guided decision making in foraging honeybees. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 6, 88. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00088

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.