Levels and Norm-Development: A Phenomenological Approach to Enactive-Ecological Norms of Action and Perception.
Front Psychol August 11, 2020 Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro 6 citations
Two radical embodied cognition frameworks—the enactive approach and the skilled intentionality framework—differ on how they explain the norms guiding action and perception. The skilled intentionality framework sees norms as agents becoming attuned to preestablished ecological frameworks, while the enactive approach sees norms as enacted by agents through sense-making at multiple levels. Both have shortcomings: norm-attunement neglects the temporal, open-ended nature of norms, and norm-enactment fails to recognize that environmental normative frameworks are necessary for norm development. The author proposes an enactive-ecological approach called norm-development, drawing on Merleau-Ponty's concept of spatial levels, where norms are enacted from past interactional histories yet remain open to new configurations.