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Enaction
Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

Edited by John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

6 x 9, 472 pp., 31 illus.
$40.00/£29.95 (CLOTH)

ISBN-10:
0-262-01460-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-01460-1

This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive
science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive
science's classical, first-generation Computational Theory of Mind (CTM).
Enaction, first articulated by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch in The Embodied Mind
(MIT Press, 1991), breaks from CTM's formalisms of information processing and
symbolic representations to view cognition as grounded in the sensorimotor
dynamics of the interactions between a living organism and its environment. A
living organism enacts the world it lives in; its embodied action in the world
constitutes its perception and thereby grounds its cognition. Enaction offers a
range of perspectives on this exciting new approach to embodied cognitive
science.

Some chapters offer manifestos for the enaction paradigm; others address
specific areas of research, including artificial intelligence, developmental
psychology, neuroscience, language, phenomenology, and culture and cognition.
Three themes emerge as testimony to the originality and specificity of enaction
as a paradigm: the relation between first-person lived experience and
third-person natural science; the ambition to provide an encompassing framework
applicable at levels from the cell to society; and the difficulties of
reflexivity. Taken together, the chapters offer nothing less than the framework
for a far-reaching renewal of cognitive science.

Contributors: Renaud Barbaras, Didier Bottineau, Giovanna Colombetti, Diego
Cosmelli, Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. Andreas K. Engel, Olivier
Gapenne, Véronique Havelange, Edwin Hutchins, Michel Le Van Quyen, Rafael E.
Núñez, Marieke Rohde, Benny Shanon, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adam Sheya, Linda
B. Smith, John Stewart, Evan Thompson

About the Editors

John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of
Compiègne, France.

Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of
Compiègne, France.

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the
Basque Country, Spain.


Contents

Introduction
John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

1
Foundational Issues in Enaction as a Paradigm for Cognitive Science
>From the Origin of Life to Consciousness and Writing
John Stewart

2
Horizons for the Enactive Mind:
Value, Social Interaction, and Play
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Marieke Rohde, and Hanne De Jaegher

3
Life and Exteriority: The Problem of Metabolism
Renaud Barbaras

4
Development through Sensorimotor Coordination
Adam Sheya and Linda B. Smith

5
Enaction, Sense-Making, and Emotion
Giovanna Colombetti

6
Thinking in Movement: Further Analyses and Validations
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

7
Kinesthesia and the Construction of Perceptual Objects
Olivier Gapenne

8
Directive Minds: How Dynamics Shapes Cognition
Andreas K. Engel

9
Neurodynamics and Phenomenology in Mutual Enlightenment
The Example of the Epileptic Aura
Michel Le Van Quyen

10
Language and Enaction
Didier Bottineau

11
Enacting Infinity: Bringing Transfinite Cardinals into Being
Rafael E. Núñez

12
The Ontological Constitution of Cognition and the Epistemological
Constitution of Cognitive Science: Phenomenology, Enaction, and Technology
Véronique Havelange

13
Embodiment or Envatment?
Reflections on the Bodily Basis of Consciousness
Diego Cosmelli and Evan Thompson

14
Toward a Phenomenological Psychology of the Conscious
Benny Shanon

15
Enaction, Imagination, and Insight
Edwin Hutchins

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Bien cordialement,
Didier Bottineau
CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre - La Défense




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