Published: 2024-07-31

The Distributed Cognition Approach in Psychopathology

Filip Stawski
Studia Philosophiae Christianae
Section: Papers
https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.A.06

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the nature of psychopathology in the context of the idea of distributed cognition. Distributed cognition is a methodological approach to the analysis of cognitive systems and the relationships among their underlying components. In the first part of this paper, I describe the key assumptions of distributed cognition and consider its utility in the fields of philosophy of psychiatry and psychology. Having done so, I attempt to depict addiction as a state that cannot be described solely from an individualistic point of view, but rather as a distributed phenomenon. This standpoint corresponds to Hanna Pickard’s account and the concept of affordances, which has increasingly been used in the context of psychopathology in recent years.

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Received: 12/04/2023. Reviewed: 15/01/2024. Accepted: 24/04/2024.

 

Keywords:

distributed cognition, affordances, psychopathology, addiction

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Stawski, F. (2024). The Distributed Cognition Approach in Psychopathology. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 60(1), 149–168. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.A.06

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