Radical Enactivism

This edited collection clarifies which varieties of enactivism successfully reject traditional representationalist cognitivism and which do not. Centered on Hutto's paper, expert commentators—both enactivists and non-enactivists—explore enactivism's implications for perception, emotion, content theory, cognition, development, and social interaction. Hutto's replies add depth and integration. The book is aimed at readers interested in current developments in embodied and situated cognitive science.

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Abstract

"This collection is a much-needed remedy to the confusion about which varieties of enactivism are robust yet viable rejections of traditional representationalism approaches to cognitivism – and which are not. Hutto's paper is the pivot around which the expert commentators, enactivists and non-enactivists alike, sketch out the implications of enactivism for a wide variety of issues: perception, emotion, the theory of content, cognition, development, social interaction, and more. The inclusion of thoughtful replies from Hutto gives the volume a further degree of depth and integration often lacking in collections of essays. Anyone interested in assessing the current cutting-edge developments in the embodied and situated sciences of the mind will want to read this book." Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex, UK