Enactive Cognition in Place: Sense-Making as the Development of Ecological Norms

by Miguel A. Sepïlveda-Pedro

Overview

This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint, Sepúlveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development; the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and sense-making occurs in a domain consistingof multiple normative dimensions that the author names enactive place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031202841
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2022
Series:	New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Edition description:	1st ed. 2023
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction: From the Embodied Mind to the Emplacement of the Living Body.- Chapter Two: Worlds Apart: Are Our Minds Enclosed Inside Our Heads?.- Chapter Three: Enactive Cognition: From Sensorimotor Interactions to Autonomy and Normative Behaviour.- Chapter Four: Body-World Entanglement: On Sense-Making as Norm Development.- Chapter Five: The Ecological Dimension of Sense-Making: The Active Role of the Environment in Processes of Norm Development: The Environment as an Active Ecological Field.- Chapter Six: Sense-Making as Place-Norms: Inhabiting the World with Others.- Chapter Seven: Finale: Situating the Enactive Approach.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Enactive cognition in place presents an in-depth discussion of some core ideas of embodied and enactive cognition, first by reviewing the many branches of enactivism and, secondly, by providing novel and exciting views regarding agent-environment relations. Sepúlveda-Pedro convincingly points out the shortcomings of the available versions of enactive cognition, which motivates his own interpretation of sense-making as norm development. I believe even an audience unacquainted with embodied cognition will benefit from this book, not to mention those already familiar with the recent developments of that research program. The outcome is a compelling defense of a novel version of the enactive approach, one that emphasizes how the environment contributes for normativity and cognition." (Giovanni Rolla, Professor of Philosophy, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

"We make sense of our world by being entangled with it.We inhabit places, we change them and they change us. This book explores the profound consequences of this radical situatedness. Building on the latest work in enactive and ecological approaches to the mind, Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro puts forward fresh and elaborate proposals to better capture the ecological and developmental dimensions of norms and sense-making." (Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science, Spain)