The Relational Mind: An Enactive Theory of the Self

A new, enactive approach to the self as a fundamentally social phenomenon, in which the mind arises from human relations.

What if connection—not separation—was the starting point for thinking about the human self? In The Relational Mind, philosopher and cognitive scientist Miriam Kyselo calls into question the common individualist assumption that the self is what separates us from others and comes before sociality. Taking on two of philosophy’s most central problems—the mind-body problem and...