Introduction: The Varieties of Enactivism

Ward, Dave; Silverman, David; Villalobos, Mario

doi:10.1007/s11245-017-9484-6

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“…And whatever it is that we are focused on in our environment, such as a glass, guides our future action and, in turn, our action serves to construct and reinforce it (Ward et al. ).…”

Section: Agency Form and Realitymentioning

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“…Our agency comes from the fact that we, the perceivers, can modulate our attention and adjust our senses to maximize the effect of whatever object we happen to be focused on. And whatever it is that we are focused on in our environment, such as a glass, guides our future action and, in turn, our action serves to construct and reinforce it (Ward et al 2017).…”

Section: Agency Form and Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

Beharrell¹

2019

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This article considers the kind of knowledge that is constituted through embodied sensory perception and makes the case for a form of knowledge that is embodied, relational, and potentially transformational. Such knowledge is encountered through our physiological senses and cultivated by reestablishing connections to our bodies. The discussion starts by exploring the literature on sensory perception and interoception and moves on to the role of human agency, which is implicit in the idea of top‐down causation. It is argued that this process can be explained by a top‐down predictive model within which a sense of greater interoceptive accuracy may be cultivated while reducing interoceptive perturbation. The roles of active and perceptual inference are discussed with regard to the regulatory opportunities that these types of attention yield. By being more interoceptively aware, through a practice of contemplation, it is argued, we open ourselves to an encounter with divine presence that is immanent in the world around us.

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“…And whatever it is that we are focused on in our environment, such as a glass, guides our future action and, in turn, our action serves to construct and reinforce it (Ward et al. ).…”

Section: Agency Form and Realitymentioning

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Section: Agency Form and Realitymentioning

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Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

Beharrell¹

2019

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“…They range from naïve realist ( Gibson, 1979 ; Chemero, 2011 ) to consciousness oriented ( Hoffman, 2008 ) to immanent realism ( Albertazzi, 2005 ); and proponents of the extended mind ( Clark and Chalmers, 1998 ) explaining perceiving as a process of motor-sensory integrations ( O’Regan and Noë, 2001 ; Noë and O’Regan, 2002 ). Then there is a wide set of embodied enactivists (a review in Ward et al, 2017 ), from those grounding in neurophysiology their negation of the representationalist viewpoint in perception, such as autopoietic enactivism ( Varela et al, 1991 ; Varela, 1996 ; Thompson and Varela, 2001 ; Thompson, 2004 , 2007 ; Thompson et al, 2005 ; Thompson and Zahavi, 2007 ), radical enactivism ( Hutto and Myin, 2013 ), sensori-motor enactivism ( Di Paolo et al, 2017 ), etc. (see Roberts, 2018 ).…”

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Naturalizing Phenomenology: A Must Have?

Albertazzi

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Quite a few cognitive scientists are working toward a naturalization of phenomenology. Looking more closely at the relevant literature, however, the ‘naturalizing phenomenology’ proposals show the presence of different conceptions, assumptions, and formalisms, further differentiated by different philosophical and/or scientific concerns. This paper shows that the original Husserlian stance is deeper, clearer and more advanced than most supposed contemporary improvements. The recent achievements of experimental phenomenology show how to ‘naturalize’ phenomenology without destroying the guiding assumptions of phenomenology. The requirements grounding the scientific explanation of subjective experience are discussed, such as the nature of the stimuli, their variables, and their manipulation by properly phenomenological methods.

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“…Our focus is not intended in prejudice against the other approaches going under the name of enactivism. SeeWard et al (2017) for a discussion of the relations between these various enactivist traditions.…”

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Radical embodiment in two directions

Baggs

Chemero

2018

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Radical embodied cognitive science is split into two camps: the ecological approach and the enactive approach. We propose that these two approaches can be brought together into a productive synthesis. The key is to recognize that the two approaches are pursuing different but complementary types of explanation. Both approaches seek to explain behavior in terms of the animal-environment relation, but they start at opposite ends. Ecological psychologists pursue an ontological strategy. They begin by describing the habitat of the species, and use this to explain how action possibilities are constrained for individual actors. Enactivists, meanwhile, pursue an epistemic strategy: start by characterizing the exploratory, self-regulating behavior of the individual organism, and use this to understand how that organism brings forth its animal-specific umwelt. Both types of explanation are necessary: the ontological strategy explains how structure in the environment constrains how the world can appear to an individual, while the epistemic strategy explains how the world can appear differently to different members of the same species, relative to their skills, abilities, and histories. Making the distinction between species habitat and animal-specific umwelt allows us to understand the environment in realist terms while acknowledging that individual living organisms are phenomenal beings. Keywords Radical embodied cognitive science • Ecological psychology • Enactivism • Affordances • Information • Umwelt There are currently two main flavors of radical (i.e., nonrepresentational) embodied cognitive science. On the one hand, there is ecological psychology, whose proponents draw their influence primarily from the work of James Gibson; on the other hand there is enactivism, whose proponents are influenced primarily by the work of Humberto B Edward Baggs

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Introduction: The Varieties of Enactivism

Cited by 174 publications

References 38 publications

Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

Naturalizing Phenomenology: A Must Have?

Radical embodiment in two directions

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