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Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science Paperback - 2014

by John Stewart (Editor); Olivier Gapenne (Editor); Ezequiel A. Di Paolo (Editor)


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A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social.

This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Enaction, first articulated by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch in The Embodied Mind (MIT Press, 1991), breaks from CTM's formalisms of information processing and symbolic representations to view cognition as grounded in the sensorimotor dynamics of the interactions between a living organism and its environment. A living organism enacts the world it lives in; its embodied action in the world constitutes its perception and thereby grounds its cognition. Enaction offers a range of perspectives on this exciting new approach to embodied cognitive science.

Some chapters offer manifestos for the enaction paradigm; others address specific areas of research, including artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, neuroscience, language, phenomenology, and culture and cognition. Three themes emerge as testimony to the originality and specificity of enaction as a paradigm: the relation between first-person lived experience and third-person natural science; the ambition to provide an encompassing framework applicable at levels from the cell to society; and the difficulties of reflexivity. Taken together, the chapters offer nothing less than the framework for a far-reaching renewal of cognitive science.

Contributors
Renaud Barbaras, Didier Bottineau, Giovanna Colombetti, Diego Cosmelli, Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. Andreas K. Engel, Olivier Gapenne, Vronique Havelange, Edwin Hutchins, Michel Le Van Quyen, Rafael E. Nez, Marieke Rohde, Benny Shanon, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adam Sheya, Linda B. Smith, John Stewart, Evan Thompson

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  • Title Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science
  • Author John Stewart (Editor); Olivier Gapenne (Editor); Ezequiel A. Di Paolo (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 488
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Date 2014-01-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780262526012 / 0262526018
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 14.5 x 0.84 in (22.66 x 36.83 x 2.13 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Cognitive science, Cognition - Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153

About the author

John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of Compigne, France. Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compigne, France. Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of Compigne, France. Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of Compigne, France. Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compigne, France. Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. Hanne De Jaegher is Ramn y Cajal Research Fellow in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. Linda B. Smith is a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. Giovanna Colombetti is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compigne, France. Andreas K. Engel is Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and author of Waking, Dreaming, Being.
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