
Enaction
Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science
Bradford Books (Publisher)
Published on 24. November 2010
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-0-262-01460-1 (ISBN)
Description
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, Véronique Havelange, Edwin Hutchins, Michel Le Van Quyen, Rafael E. Núñez, Marieke Rohde, Benny Shanon, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adam Sheya, Linda B. Smith, John Stewart, Evan Thompson
Renaud Barbaras, Didier Bottineau, Giovanna Colombetti, Diego Cosmelli, Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. Andreas K. Engel, Olivier Gapenne, Véronique Havelange, Edwin Hutchins, Michel Le Van Quyen, Rafael E. Núñez, Marieke Rohde, Benny Shanon, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adam Sheya, Linda B. Smith, John Stewart, Evan Thompson
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Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
31 s/w Abbildungen
31 b&w illus.; 62 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
885 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01460-1 (9780262014601)
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John Stewart | Olivier Gapenne | Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
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Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science
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Persons
John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France.
Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France.
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant and Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France. Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France.
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant and Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France. Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Editor
Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
Assistant ProfessorUniversite de Technologie de Compiegne
Research ProfessorUniversity of the Basque Country
Introduction
Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
Research ProfessorUniversity of the Basque Country
Assistant ProfessorUniversite de Technologie de Compiegne
Contributions
Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
Research ProfessorUniversity of the Basque Country
University of Sussex
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)