Enactive Cognition in Place

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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.

Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

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.

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Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro

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Phenomenology Ecological Psychology Enactivism normativity The enactive approach Spatial levels Embodied cognition sense-making affordances Merleau-Ponty

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 "Enactive cognition in place presents an in-depth discussion of some core ideas of embodied and enactive cognition, first by reviewing the many branches of enactivism and, secondly, by providing novel and exciting views regarding agent-environment relations. Sepúlveda-Pedro convincingly points out the shortcomings of the available versions of enactive cognition, which motivates his own interpretation of sense-making as norm development. I believe even an audience unacquainted with embodied cognition will benefit from this book, not to mention those already familiar with the recent developments of that research program. The outcome is a compelling defense of a novel version of the enactive approach, one that emphasizes how the environment contributes for normativity and cognition." (Giovanni Rolla, Professor of Philosophy, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

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