TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,John
AU  - Gapenne,Olivier
AU  - Di Paolo,Ezequiel A.
TI  - Enaction: toward a new paradigm for cognitive science 
SN  - 0262526018
AV  - BF311 .E53 2014
U1  - 153 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy and cognitive science
KW  - Cognitive science
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Originally published: 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; 1; Foundational Issues in Enaction as a Paradigm for Cognitive Science: From the Origin of Life to Consciousness and Writing --; 2; Horizons for the Enactive Mind: Values, Social Interaction, and Play --; 3; Life and Exteriority: The Problem of Metabolism --; 4; Development through Sensorimotor Coordination --; 5; Enaction, Sense-Making, and Emotion --; 6; Thinking in Movement: Further Analyses and Validations --; 7; Kinesthesia and the Construction of Perceptual Objects --; 8; Directive Minds: How Dynamics Shapes Cognition --; 9; Neurodynamics and Phenomenology in Mutual Enlightenment: The Example of the Epileptic Aura --; 10; Language and Enaction --; 11; Enacting Infinity: Bringing Transfinite Cardinals into Being --; 12; The Ontological Constitution of Cognition and the Epistemological Constitution of Cognitive Science: Phenomenology, Enaction, and Technology --; 13; Embodiment or Envatment?: Reflections on the Bodily Basis of Consciousness --; 14; Toward a Phenomenological Psychology of the Conscious --; 15; Enaction, Imagination, and Insight
N2  - "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."--Publisher's website
ER  -