- 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
After reviewing some disagreements and worries about embodied cognition (EC) as a research field, I focus on the distinction between weak EC, which focuses on brain-based, body-related representations, and strong EC, which takes the extraneural body and environment to be more central to cognition. An important aspect of weak EC is its reliance on the neural reuse hypothesis. I argue that an adequate understanding of neural reuse actually points in the direction of a stronger conception of embodied cognition where extraneural factors play an essential role in evolutionary and developmental time frames. Both body and the environment (including physical, social, and cultural factors) place important constraints on how reuse works.
Keywords: B-formatted representations, embodied cognition, the neural reuse hypothesis, weak EC, strong EC, representation, evolution, culture
Shaun Gallagher Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA
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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
