Keyword: enactive approach

Already in the early 2000s, Francisco Varela and Evan Thompson emphasized that the notion of autonomy should be understood as scaffolded along multiple, entangled, and overlapping dimensions—namely, biological regulation, sensorimotor coupling, and social interaction. Since then, various developments of the autonomy framework have sought to articulate this multidimensionality. The enactive approach, particularly the version proposed […]

The attempt to integrate dialectical insights into cognitive science has shaped recent developments within the enactive approach, most notably in Di Paolo et al.’s Linguistic Bodies (2018). Following this emerging line of inquiry, this new paper seeks to establish a dialogue between the enactive perspective and the Marxist tradition. The central point of contact is […]

Collin Lucken & Elmo Feiten use the enactive concept of participatory sense-making to ground public science engagement, showing how core ideas from embodied cognition can scale beyond motor coordination to illuminate social cognition in practice. Read here. Abstract: Our paper explores new potentials for productive dialogue between public engagement with science (PEWS) and radical embodied […]