- The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition
- List of Contributors
- 4E Cognition: Historical Roots, Key Concepts, and Central Issues
- Extended Cognition
- Ecological-Enactive Cognition as engaging with a field of relevant affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF)
- The Enactive Conception of Life
- Going Radical
- Critical Note: So, What Again is 4E Cognition?
- The Predictive Processing Hypothesis
- Interacting in the Open: Where Dynamical Systems Become Extended and Embodied
- Searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity: From Agent-Based Models to Perceptual Crossing Experiments
- Cognitive Integration: How Culture Transforms Us and Extends Our Cognitive Capabilities
- Critical Note: Cognitive Systems and the Dynamics of Representing-in-the-World
- The Body in Action: Predictive Processing and the Embodiment Thesis
- Joint Action and 4E Cognition
- Perception, Exploration, and the Primacy of Touch
- Direct Social Perception
- Critical Note: Cognition, Action, and Self-Control from the 4E Perspective
- Disclosing the World: Intentionality and 4E Cognition
- Building a stronger concept of embodiment
- Motor intentionality
- The Extended Body Hypothesis: Referred Sensations from Tools to Peripersonal Space
- Critical Note: Brain–Body–Environment Couplings. What Do they Teach us about Cognition?
- Embodied Resonance
- Why Engagement?: A Second-Person Take on Social Cognition
- The intersubjective turn
- The Person Model Theory and the Question of Situatedness of Social Understanding
- False-Belief Understanding, 4E Cognition, and Predictive Processing
- Critical Note: How Revisionary are 4E Accounts of Social Cognition?
- Embodiment of emotion and its situated nature
- Thinking and feeling: A Social-Developmental Perspective
- Enacting affectivity
- Beyond Mirroring: 4E Perspectives on Empathy
- Critical Note: 3E’s Are Sufficient, But Don’t Forget the D
- The Embodiment of Language
- The Embodiment of Concepts: Theoretical Perspectives and the Role of Predictive Processing
- Origins and complexities of infant communication and social cognition
- Developing an understanding of normativity
- Critical Note: Language and Learning from the 4E Perspective
- The Evolution of Cognition: A 4E Perspective
- Mindshaping
- Bringing things to mind: 4Es and Material Engagement
- Culture and the Extended Phenotype: Cognition and Material Culture in Deep Time
- Critical Note: Evolution of Human Cognition. Temporal Dynamics at Biological and Historical Time Scales
- Communication as Fundamental Paradigm for Psychopathology
- Scaffolding Intuitive Rationality
- Robots as powerful allies for the study of embodied cognition from the bottom up
- Interpersonal judgments, embodied reasoning, and juridical legitimacy
- 4E Cognition and the Humanities
- Embodied Aesthetics
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
I offer some critical thoughts on some philosophical issues touched upon in the four papers in the section on Cognition, Action, and Perception. I highlight these issues because, apart from revealing some problematic aspects of the arguments presented therein, they illustrate a general concern about some prominent debates in the context of 4E approaches to cognition: that at some times we are so excited that we can bring philosophy in close touch with empirical results that we forget our core business as philosophers—the argument—while at other times we can’t stop overdoing it with our philosophical concept-mongery and thereby fail to see important lessons empirical results have to teach us. In addition, I want to draw attention to a topic that one might have expected to be covered in a handbook on 4E cognition, in particular in the section on Cognition, Action, and Perception, but that isn’t addressed: the topic of self-control.
Keywords: action, collective minds, coupling/constitution fallacy, distributed and extended cognition, other minds problem, perception, predictive processing, self-control, situationism, willpower, ego-depletion
Sven Walter Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
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- The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition
- List of Contributors
- 4E Cognition: Historical Roots, Key Concepts, and Central Issues
- Extended Cognition
- Ecological-Enactive Cognition as engaging with a field of relevant affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF)
- The Enactive Conception of Life
- Going Radical
- Critical Note: So, What Again is 4E Cognition?
- The Predictive Processing Hypothesis
- Interacting in the Open: Where Dynamical Systems Become Extended and Embodied
- Searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity: From Agent-Based Models to Perceptual Crossing Experiments
- Cognitive Integration: How Culture Transforms Us and Extends Our Cognitive Capabilities
- Critical Note: Cognitive Systems and the Dynamics of Representing-in-the-World
- The Body in Action: Predictive Processing and the Embodiment Thesis
- Joint Action and 4E Cognition
- Perception, Exploration, and the Primacy of Touch
- Direct Social Perception
- Critical Note: Cognition, Action, and Self-Control from the 4E Perspective
- Disclosing the World: Intentionality and 4E Cognition
- Building a stronger concept of embodiment
- Motor intentionality
- The Extended Body Hypothesis: Referred Sensations from Tools to Peripersonal Space
- Critical Note: Brain–Body–Environment Couplings. What Do they Teach us about Cognition?
- Embodied Resonance
- Why Engagement?: A Second-Person Take on Social Cognition
- The intersubjective turn
- The Person Model Theory and the Question of Situatedness of Social Understanding
- False-Belief Understanding, 4E Cognition, and Predictive Processing
- Critical Note: How Revisionary are 4E Accounts of Social Cognition?
- Embodiment of emotion and its situated nature
- Thinking and feeling: A Social-Developmental Perspective
- Enacting affectivity
- Beyond Mirroring: 4E Perspectives on Empathy
- Critical Note: 3E’s Are Sufficient, But Don’t Forget the D
- The Embodiment of Language
- The Embodiment of Concepts: Theoretical Perspectives and the Role of Predictive Processing
- Origins and complexities of infant communication and social cognition
- Developing an understanding of normativity
- Critical Note: Language and Learning from the 4E Perspective
- The Evolution of Cognition: A 4E Perspective
- Mindshaping
- Bringing things to mind: 4Es and Material Engagement
- Culture and the Extended Phenotype: Cognition and Material Culture in Deep Time
- Critical Note: Evolution of Human Cognition. Temporal Dynamics at Biological and Historical Time Scales
- Communication as Fundamental Paradigm for Psychopathology
- Scaffolding Intuitive Rationality
- Robots as powerful allies for the study of embodied cognition from the bottom up
- Interpersonal judgments, embodied reasoning, and juridical legitimacy
- 4E Cognition and the Humanities
- Embodied Aesthetics
- Name Index
- Subject Index