Emanuele Bardone: Seeking chances: from biased rationality to distributed cognition

The use of intuition and emotion in reasoning or in
building hypothesis has been discussed through varied
approaches within many disciplines. Emanuele Bardone
provides new insights into these issues, such as
the idea of human cognition as a chance-seeking
system. This perspective creates a new framework
when considering the decision-making and problem
solving challenges. One of the key concepts that
Bardone discusses at length is affordances, the relation
of affordances to abduction and to the eco-cognitive
niche. Worth mentioning are also: niche construction
and the notion of humans as ecological engineers. All
these concepts use, and build upon, the idea of
distributed cognition.