naa a22 4500 510783899 CHVBK 20180411083256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13164-013-0148-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13164-013-0148-1 Heersmink Richard Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia aut A Taxonomy of Cognitive Artifacts: Function, Information, and Categories [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Heersmink] The goal of this paper is to develop a systematic taxonomy of cognitive artifacts, i.e., human-made, physical objects that functionally contribute to performing a cognitive task. First, I identify the target domain by conceptualizing the category of cognitive artifacts as a functional kind: a kind of artifact that is defined purely by its function. Next, on the basis of their informational properties, I develop a set of related subcategories in which cognitive artifacts with similar properties can be grouped. In this taxonomy, I distinguish between three taxa, those of family, genus, and species. The family includes all cognitive artifacts without further specifying their informational properties. Two genera are then distinguished: representational and non-representational (or ecological) cognitive artifacts. These genera are further divided into species. In case of representational artifacts, these species are iconic, indexical, or symbolic. In case of ecological artifacts, these species are spatial or structural. Within species, token artifacts are identified. The proposed taxonomy is an important first step towards a better understanding of the range and variety of cognitive artifacts and is a helpful point of departure, both for conceptualizing how different artifacts augment or impair cognitive performance and how they transform and are integrated into our cognitive system and practices. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/3(2013-09-01), 465-481 1878-5158 4:3<465 2013 4 13164 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0148-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0148-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Heersmink Richard Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/3(2013-09-01), 465-481 1878-5158 4:3<465 2013 4 13164 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer