Cognition Embodied, Extended and Enacted: Back Together Again

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titleCognition Embodied, Extended and Enacted: Back Together Again
start_date2013/04/16
schedule15h-17h
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location_infosalle F 101
summaryInfluential arguments of Andy Clark have convinced many that the theses of embodied and extended cognition are dubiously compatible. According to Clark, the thesis of extended cognition is, in essence, a functionalist thesis, and such functionalism is anathema to the thesis of embodied cognition. In this paper, I shall defend an account of mental processes that is both embodied and extended – and also recognizably enactivist. At the core of this account is an analysis of intentionality as revealing activity – an analysis that owes much to work in the early phenomenological and analytic traditions.
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