Enaction : toward a new paradigm for cognitive science / edited by John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Stewart, John, 1941-

Gapenne, Olivier.

Di Paolo, Ezequiel A.

Association pour la recherche cognitive (France)

Conference Name:

Ecole d'été du CNRS sur les sciences cognitives (2006 : Ile d'Oléron, France)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition--Philosophy.

Cognition.

Philosophy and cognitive science.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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', 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.

Contents:

Introduction / John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, Ezequiel Di Paolo

Foundational issues in enaction as a paradigm for cognitive science : from the origin of life to consciousness and writing / John Stewart

Horizons for the enactive mind : value, social interaction, and play / Ezequiel Di Paolo, Marieke Rohde and Hanneke De Jaegher

Life and exteriority : the problem of metabolism / Renaud Barbaras

Development through sensory-motor coordination / Adam Sheya and Linda B. Smith

Enaction, sense-making and emotion / Giovanna Colombetti

Thinking in movement / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Kinesthesis and the construction of perceptual objects / Olivier Gapenne

Directive minds : how dynamics shapes cognition / Andreas Engel

Neurodynamics and phenomenology in mutual enlightenment : the example of the

Epileptic aura / Michel Le Van Quyen

Language and enation / Didier Bottineau

Enacting infinity : bringing transfinite cardinals into being / Rafael E. Naaez

The ontological constitution of cognition and the epistemological constitution of

Cognitive science : phenomenology, enaction and technology / Varonique Havelange

Embodiment or envatment? reflections on the bodily basis of consciousness / Diego Cosmelli and Evan Thompson

Towards a phenomenological psychology of the conscious / Benny Shanon

Enaction, imagination, and insight / Edwin Hutchins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Bradford book."

"Based on an International CNRS Summer School organized by the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARC), held from 29 May to 03 June 2006, Ile d'Oléron, France"--Text.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786612978494

9781282978492

1282978497

9780262289795

0262289792

OCLC:

712025064

Publisher Number:

9786612978494