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Mark H. Bickhard

Mark H. Bickhard

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
8083
World Ranking
4719
National Ranking
2238

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Mark H. Bickhard is affiliated with Lehigh University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions to physics and astronomy as well.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Physics and Astronomy

Bickhard's work delves into specific subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, history and philosophy of science, social psychology, as well as astronomy and astrophysics. This range reflects a multidisciplinary approach integrating cognitive and developmental perspectives with the philosophical underpinnings of science.

Their research topics prominently feature:

  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications

Bickhard has published in various academic venues including:

  • New Ideas in Psychology
  • Human Development
  • Cognitive Development
  • Metaphysica
  • Frontiers in Developmental Psychology

Their recent scholarly papers are:

  • Conventional minds: An interactivist perspective on social cognition and its enculturation, 2021, New Ideas in Psychology
  • Emergent Constructivism: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations, 2022, Human Development
  • Age 4 transitions: Reflection as a domain-general development for explicit reasoning, 2021, Cognitive Development
  • Encultured minds, not error reduction minds, 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • On Emergence, Again, 2023, Metaphysica

The collaborative nature of Bickhard's research is reflected in frequent coauthors such as Robert Mirski, Jedediah W.P. Allen, Bartuğ Çelik, Francesco Maria Ferrari, and David Eck, with multiple publications produced alongside Mirski and Allen.

In recognition of their contributions to psychology, Bickhard received the designation of Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution

    Mark H. Bickhard;Loren Terveen

  • Knowing Levels and Developmental Stages

    Robert L. Campbell;Mark H. Bickhard

  • Representational content in humans and machines

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • On the Nature of Representation: A Case Study of James Gibson's Theory of Perception

    Mark H. Bickhard;D. Michael Richie

  • The Process Dynamics of Normative Function

    Wayne David Christensen;Mark H. Bickhard

  • Cognition, Convention, and Communication.

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • The interactivist model

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • How Does the Environment Affect the Person

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • Interactivism and genetic epistemology

    M. H. Bickhard;R. L. Campbell

  • Autonomy, function, and representation

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • The Nature of Developmental Stages

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • The Mind's Staircase

    Mark H. Bickhard;Robbie Case

  • Part II: Applications of Process-Based Theories: Process and Emergence: Normative Function and Representation

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • Levels of representationality

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • Stepping off the pendulum: Why only an action-based approach can transcend the nativist–empiricist debate.

    Jedediah W.P. Allen;Mark H. Bickhard

  • Types of constraints on development: An interactivist approach

    Robert L Campbell;Mark H Bickhard

  • Some foundational questions concerning language studies: With a focus on categorial grammars and model-theoretic possible worlds semantics

    Mark H. Bickhard;Robert L. Campbell

  • A Deconstruction of Fodor’s Anticonstructivism

    Robert L. Campbell;Mark H. Bickhard

  • Interactivism: A manifesto

    Mark H. Bickhard

  • Topologies of learning and development

    Mark H. Bickhard;Robert L. Campbell

  • Piaget on Variation and Selection Models: Structuralism, Logical Necessity, and Interactivism

    Mark H. Bickhard

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald T. Campbell
Donald T. Campbell Lehigh University

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