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This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint, Sepúlveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development; the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and sense-making occurs in a domain consistingof multiple normative dimensions that the author names enactive place.
List of contents
Chapter One: Introduction: From the Embodied Mind to the Emplacement of the Living Body.- Chapter Two: Worlds Apart: Are Our Minds Enclosed Inside Our Heads?.- Chapter Three: Enactive Cognition: From Sensorimotor Interactions to Autonomy and Normative Behaviour.- Chapter Four: Body-World Entanglement: On Sense-Making as Norm Development.- Chapter Five: The Ecological Dimension of Sense-Making: The Active Role of the Environment in Processes of Norm Development: The Environment as an Active Ecological Field.- Chapter Six: Sense-Making as Place-Norms: Inhabiting the World with Others.- Chapter Seven: Finale: Situating the Enactive Approach.
About the author
Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
