The Cognitive Basis of Science: Scientific cognition as distributed cognition

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Economization, part 2: a research programme for the study of markets (2010, background): “…or cognitive activities such as those of an astronomer who tries to identify and locate new galaxies, to determine their evolution and calculate their trajectories (Giere, 2002), mobilize a large number of (human and non-human) entities that take part in the action and in the cognitive process.”
Incredible Worlds, Credible Results (2009, methodology): “Our argument is that, from the epistemic point of view, modelling is essentially inference from assumptions to conclusions conducted by an extended cognitive system (cf. Giere 2002a, b).”