By the end of the course students will explore the implications of claims such as (i) cognition depends not only on the brain but also in the body (the embodiment thesis), (ii) cognitive activity routinely exploits structure in the natural and social environment (the embedding thesis), and (iii) the boundaries of cognition extend beyond the boundaries of individual organisms (the extended/distributed cognition thesis). Students will be expected to compare insights obtained from situated analyses of cognition with other methods/conceptual frameworks they are familiar with. They will also be introduced a particular research method that they can employ to investigate cognitive phenomena from a situated perspective.