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Enactivist Interventions Shaun Gallagher (Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis, Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy)

Enactivist Interventions By Shaun Gallagher (Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis, Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy)

Summary

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including perception, affect, and action. Gallagher argues that the brain is not secluded from the world or isolated in its own processes, but rather is dynamically connected with body and environment.

Enactivist Interventions Summary

Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind by Shaun Gallagher (Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis, Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy)

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and intersubjectivity. Gallagher argues for a rethinking of the concept of mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive science. Enactivism is presented as a philosophy of nature that has significant methodological and theoretical implications for the scientific investigation of the mind. Gallagher argues that, like the basic phenomena of perception and action, sophisticated cognitive phenomena like reflection, imagining, and mathematical reasoning are best explained in terms of an affordance-based skilled coping. He offers an account of the continuity that runs between basic action, affectivity, and a rationality that in every case remains embodied. Gallagher's analysis also addresses recent predictive models of brain function and outlines an alternative, enactivist interpretation that emphasizes the close coupling of brain, body and environment rather than a strong boundary that isolates the brain in its internal processes. The extensive relational dynamics that integrates the brain with the extra-neural body opens into an environment that is physical, social and cultural and that recycles back into the enactive process. Cognitive processes are in-the-world rather than in-the-head; they are situated in affordance spaces defined across evolutionary, developmental and individual histories, and are constrained by affective processes and normative dimensions of social and cultural practices.

Enactivist Interventions Reviews

Enactivism is one of the central themes in current philosophy of cognitive science, and Shaun Gallagher is among the leading proponents of the approach. These reasons alone would be sufficient for this book to qualify as required reading for anyone wanting to stay current with the subfield. The book provides an excellent and easy-to-read introduction to core issues and overview of the central debates, and it provides some fascinating applications of the framework. * Rick Grush, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
I recommend it strongly. * Robert Scott Stewart, Metapsychology Online Reviews *

About Shaun Gallagher (Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis, Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy)

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has had visiting positions in Cambridge, Copenhagen, Paris, Lyon, Berlin, and most recently Oxford. His research areas include phenomenology and philosophy of mind, embodied cognition, theories of self, intersubjectivity and social cognition. Professor Gallagher holds the Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier Research Award (2012-18). His previous publications include How the Body Shapes the Mind (2005) and The Phenomenological Mind (2012).

Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Variations on embodied cognition 3: Pragmatic resources for enactive and extended minds 4: Enactive intentionality 5: Action without representations 6: Perception without inferences 7: Action and the problem of free will 8: Making enactivism even more embodied 9: The upright posture: its current standing 10: The practice of thinking

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NGR9780198848066
9780198848066
0198848064
Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind by Shaun Gallagher (Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis, Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy)
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Oxford University Press
2019-09-13
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