Workshop: Dialectics and the Embodied Mind

15 September 2025

Workshop: Dialectics and the Embodied Mind

The enactive approach challenges the idea that the mind is confined to the individual, instead emphasizing its emergence through dynamic interactions between self-constituting identities and their shared environments, spanning ecological and social dimensions. Enactive research has identified three key dimensions of embodiment: organismic regulation, sensorimotor coupling, and intersubjective interaction. Each of these operates as a […]

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New Paper (2025): Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization

15 April 2025

New Paper (2025): Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization

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 […]

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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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