Enaction by John Stewart - ISBN: 9780262526012
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A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social.

Enaction

Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

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    488 pages

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    1 October 2014

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Summary

A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social.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 informat…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262526012
ISBN-10:0262526018
Author:John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Marieke Rohde, Hanne De Jaegher
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:488
Release Date:1 October 2014
Weight:635g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 21mm
Series:A Bradford Book
What They're Saying

Critics Review

This is an ambitious project…a remarkably well-written and argued collection on enactivism. Just as The Embodied Mind (Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991) has served as a constant point of reference for researchers interested in enactive ideas, I suspect that this collection will do so for future generations.

—Philosophical Psychology

There are very good chapters that introduce key ideas of enactivism and others that offer convincing applications of these ideas to specific areas of importance to cognitive science…Taken individually, these chapters are very interesting reading.

—Constructivist Foundations

About The Author

John Stewart

John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of Compi gne, France.Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compi gne, France.Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex.John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of Compi gne, France.Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex.John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant at the University of Technology of Compi gne, France.Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compi gne, France.Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex.Hanne De Jaegher is Ram n y Cajal Research Fellow in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex.Linda B. Smith is a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University.Giovanna Colombetti is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK.Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Compi gne, France.Andreas K. Engel is Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and author of Waking, Dreaming, Being.

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