Contents
Developing Scaffolds: An Introduction
I Toward Materiality: Three Perspectives
1 Reproduction and the Scaffolded Development of Hybrids
2 Evolution, Groups, and Scaffolded Minds
3 Entrenchment and Scaffolding: An Architecture for a Theory of Cultural Change
4 Excitable Media in Medias Res: How Physics Scaffolds Metazoan Development and Evolution
5 Communication and the Evolution of Cognition
6 Models as Scaffolds for Understanding
III Generativity, Entrenchment, and Boundaries
7 Stress in Mind: A Stress Response Hypothesis of Cognitive Evolution
8 Onwards and Upwards with the Extended Mind: From Individual to Collective Epistemic Action
9 Scaffolding on Core Cognition
IV Granularity and Reciprocality
11 Technological Scaffoldings for the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
12 Some Problems of Analyzing Cultural Evolution
V Reproduction and Development
13 Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies
14 The Reproduction of the Social: A Developmental System Approach
16 Footholds and Handholds: Scaffolding Cognition and Career