Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

That cognition is embodied is a claim that virtually no cognitive scientist today will deny: after all, even the researcher who models cognition in terms of entirely abstract, “medium-independent” states and processes will concede that particular instances are always necessarily realized in some body (of some kind) or other. The same is true for the theme of this year’s CogSci meeting, “Cognition in Context”: even if you think that there are cases in which the context plays merely a peripheral role in cognitive processing, you cannot deny that cognition always occurs in some context or other. This symposium is motivated by the realization, on the one hand, that the concept of embodiment means different things to different researchers in different contexts (see, e.g., Wilson 2002; Wilson and Golonka 2013; Crippen and Schulkin 2020), just as, on the other hand, the concept of context means different things to different researchers with different views on body and mind (see, e.g., Clancey 1997; Mesquita, Barrett and Smith 2010; Ibáñez and García 2018).