情境认知理论倡导一种基于情境、嵌入情境的认知观,从而标示了一种新的认知范型。认知的情境性强调了认知过程与环境、社会、文化、历史、政治以及身体、工具等情境要素之间的内在关联性。当代认知科学家、科学哲学家以及科学学家等学者对情境认知的探究多面相地展现了认知实践的种种情境化方式。
The theory of situated cognition advocates a kind of cognitive view that is based on and embedded in situation. It marks a new pattern of cognition. The situatedness of cognition emphasizes that the cognitive process is related to factors of situation such as the environment,the society,the culture,the history,the politics the body and the tool etc. The researches on situated cognition of contemporary cognitive scientists,philosophers of science,science studies researchers and so on show some specific ways in which cognitive practices are situated.