Introduction to the Special Issue: “Expertise, Semiotics and Interactivity”

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ABSTRACTIn this article, we offer an overview of the philosophical and psychological literatures on expertise. Work so far has failed to engage with recent work in embodied and encultured cognition--in particular the notions of interactivity and semiosis. We suggest how bringing these concepts on board reveals new areas of research concerning the philosophy and psychology of expertise. We conclude with a brief synopsis of each paper.KEYWORDS: Expertiseinteractivitysemiotics Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. These are keywords from abstracts that occur together in the dataset at least 25 times and clustered together based on their frequency of co-occurrence as well as the documents in which they co-occur.2. Apologies to Hilary Putnam.Additional informationNotes on contributorsCharles LassiterCharles Lassiter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University. His research focuses on the epistemology and metaphysics of mind of encultured cognition.Sarah Bro TrasmundiSarah Bro Trasmundi is Associate Professor of Cognitive Ethnography at the University of Southern Denmark and Researcher at Oslo University in the research group ‘Literature, Cognition and Emotions’. She focuses on the intersection between cognition, imagination, and language in domains such as literature, interaction, reading and education.