Friends with benefits! Distributed cognition hooks up cognitive and social conceptions of science

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1114-1127

  Magnus, P D ^a   McClamrock, Ron ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

D Cog; Distributed Cognition; Division of Cognitive Labor; Science Studies; Scientific Knowledge; SSK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938419229     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2014.964857     Document Type: Article

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