New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Sense-Making as the Development of Ecological Norms

Sepúlveda-Pedro, Miguel A.

This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint, Sepúlveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development; the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and sense-making occurs in a domain consistingof multiple normative dimensions that the author names enactive place.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-01-03

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031202841

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20282-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 221