Cognition according to Latour

What would be required to dismantle modern psychology? How could it be purged of its pervasive dichotomies? Could we focus on hybridisation to reformulate psychology as a non-modern science? This overreaching project will be explored in a series of four essays. This second article will explore some usually overlooked exchanges between Bruno Latour and cognitive sciences. The French philosopher, suspicious of classic cognitivism, crafted an alternative theory of thinking. Incidentally, different authors started to conceptualise cognition as situated and distributed simultaneously. However, by the turn of the century, Latour turned his attention to ecology, leaving the incognita of how his prior theses would play out in contemporary debates about the nature of the mind. This article explores Latour further as a cognitive scientist by reconstructing his account of cognition, delineating the genealogy of those dialogues and contrasting his arguments with other contemporary authors’ work.