Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds Without Content

by Erik Myin and Daniel D. Hutto

Book Overview

A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality--intentionally directed cognition and perceptual experience--are best understood as embodied yet contentless.

Most of what humans do and experience is best understood in terms of dynamically unfolding interactions with the environment. Many philosophers and cognitive scientists now acknowledge the critical importance of situated, environment-involving embodied engagements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018543
• ISBN13: 9780262018548
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher