New Paper (2023), J. Lee, Enactivism Meets Mechanism: Tensions & Congruities in Cognitive Science

22 February 2023

New Paper (2023), J. Lee,  Enactivism Meets Mechanism: Tensions & Congruities in Cognitive Science

Published Open Access in Minds and Machines Abstract: Enactivism advances an understanding of cognition rooted in the dynamic interac- tion between an embodied agent and their environment, whilst new mechanism sug- gests that cognition is explained by uncovering the organised components underlying cognitive capacities. On the face of it, the mechanistic model’s emphasis on localisable […]

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New Paper, I. Hipólito, T. van Es (2022), Enactive-Dynamic Social Cognition and Active Inference

17 November 2022

New Paper, I. Hipólito, T. van Es (2022), Enactive-Dynamic Social Cognition and Active Inference

Published open-access in Frontiers in Psychology Abstract: This aim of this paper is two-fold: it critically analyses and rejects accounts blending active inference as theory of mind and enactivism; and it advances an enactivist-dynamic understanding of social cognition that is compatible with active inference. While some social cognition theories seemingly take an enactive perspective on […]

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