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Evolving enactivism : basic minds meet content
- Title
- Evolving enactivism : basic minds meet content / Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin.
- Author
- Hutto, Daniel D.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Myin, Erik
- Description
- xxvii, 328 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena--perceiving, imagining, remembering--can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their earlier book Radicalizing Enactivism, which proposes that there can be forms of cognition without content, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin demonstrate the unique explanatory advantages of recognizing that only some forms of cognition have content while others--the most elementary ones--do not. They offer an account of the mind in duplex terms, proposing a complex vision of mentality in which these basic contentless forms of cognition interact with content-involving ones. Hutto and Myin argue that the most basic forms of cognition do not, contrary to a currently popular account of cognition, involve picking up and processing information that is then used, reused, stored, and represented in the brain. Rather, basic cognition is contentless--fundamentally interactive, dynamic, and relational. In advancing the case for a radically enactive account of cognition, Hutto and Myin propose crucial adjustments to our concept of cognition and offer theoretical support for their revolutionary rethinking, emphasizing its capacity to explain basic minds in naturalistic terms. They demonstrate the explanatory power of the duplex vision of cognition, showing how it offers powerful means for understanding quintessential cognitive phenomena without introducing scientifically intractable mysteries into the mix.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index.
- Contents
- Revolution in mind? -- Reasons to REConceive -- From revolution to evolution -- RECtifying and REConnecting -- Ur-intentionality : what's it all about? -- Continuity : kinks not breaks -- Perceiving -- Imagining -- Remembering -- Epilogue : missing information?
- Call Number
- JFD 17-4640
- ISBN
- 9780262036115
- 0262036118
- LCCN
- 2016039862
- OCLC
- 959263312
- Author
- Hutto, Daniel D., author.
- Title
- Evolving enactivism : basic minds meet content / Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index.
- Added Author
- Myin, Erik, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-4640