Editorial introduction to the special issue: 4E cognition research in Colombia

Garavito, María Clara; Dávila-González, Jorge

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“…From the geographical point of view, the development of the 4E approach has concentrated mainly in Europe, the United States, and Australia. However, recently, other regions have joined the movement bringing their original contributions (Garavito & Dávila-González, 2019; Gonzalez-Grandón & Froese, 2018). In this special issue, we provide a sample of the current research on 4E cognition in a country that has a direct connection with the movement, namely, Chile.…”

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The roots and blossoms of 4E cognition in Chile: Introduction to the Special Issue on 4E cognition in Chile

Villalobos,

Videla

2023

Adaptive Behavior

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4E cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive) is a growing, open and pluralistic research tradition that offers new philosophical and scientific avenues to study the mind. Both its origins and current expansive movement are theoretically and geographically diverse. Chile, the mother country of the influential biologists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana, represents one of its roots, but also, as the variety of contributions in this special issue shows it, one of its fields of new blossoms. In this editorial introduction, regarding the roots, we focus on the enactive approach developed by Francisco Varela and its relationship with Maturana’s autopoietic theory. We discuss the way in which the particular theoretical and historical horizons of these two research programs conditioned, to a large extent, their philosophical stances regarding cognition. Regarding the new blossoms, we introduce the seven articles composing the present special issue and briefly comment on their contributions in terms of methodology, practical applications, theoretical extensions, and conceptual reflection.

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