Pragmatic Interventions Into Enactive and Extended Conceptions of Cognition

Gallagher, Shaun

doi:10.1111/phis.12027

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“…EC is a relatively new research program within cognitive science that has spread into philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and education (Di Paolo et al, 2010;Francesconi and Tarozzi, 2012;Agostini and Francesconi, 2020;Ryan and Gallagher, 2020). It is strongly critical of both Cartesian dualism-the ontological separation of body and mind and subject and nature-and computationalism-the view of the mind as an information-processing computer (Froese and Di Paolo, 2011;Gallagher, 2014). Enactivism looks at the mind and cognition as the process that emerges from the nonlinear interaction of the brain-body-environment (Thompson, 2007;Francesconi and Tarozzi, 2012;Gallagher and Zahavi, 2012;Varela et al, 2016).…”

Section: Enactive Network: Embodying Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mind is viewed as active sensemaking in the context of embodied interaction with the world. Enactive cognition means that knowledge is acted out in the real lived world (Lebenswelt) in a constant attribution of sense to the lived experience (Gallagher, 2014;Kiverstein and Rietveld, 2018). In this sense, the enactive approach does not consider the mind merely as a receptacle for information.…”

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FridaysForFuture as an Enactive Network: Collective Agency for the Transition Towards Sustainable Development

2021

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In this article, we provide a theoretical conceptual analysis of FridaysForFuture (FFF) and of its effort in promoting the governance of socioeconomic transition toward sustainable development. FFF is a social movement that has received outstanding public recognition and visibility across the world in the last 2 years and is of great interest to educational research because it is largely composed of youngsters and appears to play a paideutic role in societal innovation. There is a growing but still limited body of investigation of FFF’s structures, genealogy, and behavior. The same goes for its theoretical and ethical background and principles. Its efforts to promote social change by going beyond individual agency toward collective agency deserve greater attention from educational scientists. We argue that FFF is a complex, self-organizing, informal network, which we define as an enactive network for its ability to retrieve scientific knowledge and transform it into lived meaningful knowledge, and for its capacity to mobilize masses and influence public discourse under a specific ethical umbrella. We provide six macro categories to describe and explain FFF: 1) nested emergent network, 2) collective social agency and leadership, 3) political impact, 4) science-based learning and activism, 5) paideutic function, and 6) ethical (normative) stance. We stress the FFF capacity to recruit high-level scientific knowledge without direct support from schools, and embody strong ethical stances with specific references to the ethics of responsibility and care for the interaction between humanity and the natural world. Finally, we suggest that FFF can be interpreted as an enactive network with the ability to affect collective identity and empower collective agency by encouraging communities into a more scientific, evidence-based, and ethical public discourse.

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Section: Enactive Network: Embodying Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Enactive Network: Embodying Knowledgementioning

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FridaysForFuture as an Enactive Network: Collective Agency for the Transition Towards Sustainable Development

2021

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“…As noted by philosopher Shaun Gallagher (2014Gallagher ( , 2017 this relational transaction is key to enactivism and brings about the creative and flexible projection of mind into our material, social and symbolic surroundings. I advance the concept of enactive individuation to describe this dynamic and nonrepresentational process while seeking to bridge the concepts of grammatization, ephiphylogenetic memory, and hylonoetic field.…”

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Enactive individuation: technics, temporality and affect in digital design and fabrication

Poulsgaard

2017

Phenom Cogn Sci

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The nature of creative engagement with computers and software presents a number of challenges to 4E cognition and requires the development of analytical frameworks that can encompass cognitive processes as they extend across material and informational realms. Here I argue that an enactive view of mind allows for better understanding of digital practice by advancing a dynamic, transactional, and affective framework for the analysis of computational design. This enactive framework is in part developed through the Material Engagement Theory (MET) put forward by Lambros Malafouris, in part from the phenomenologically inspired philosophy of Bernard Stiegler. Both advance temporality, technics and technique as key to understanding human creative imagination and their work can support each other in different ways; Stiegler allows for a theorisation of digital tools largely missing from the cognitive archaeology of Malafouris, whilst Malafouris provides a cognitive theory to further develop key ideas in Stiegler's philosophy. Bringing their work together through Gilbert Simondon's theory of individuation, I develop the concept of enactive individuation and apply this to the analysis of a case of robotic design and fabrication from my fieldwork with digital architects and engineers. This case allows for further exploration of how enactivism might productively be extended into the digital realm by underscoring the explorative engagement at heart of even highly systematic work with computers and software.

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“…Everybody laughs at this nowadays, and yet everybody continues to think of mind in this same general way, as something within this person or … belonging to him and correlative to the real world. (Peirce, 1903(Peirce, /1998 Indeed, many scholars have noted that the pragmatist cannon is a fruitful but underutilized resource for extended cognition theorists (e.g., Chemero, 2011;Gallagher, 2014;Madzia, 2013;Rockwell, 2005;Skorburg, 2013;Vaesen, 2014). I won't belabor that point here, but it should hardly be surprising that the same school of thinkers who brought the concept of symbolic interactionism to sociology and psychology (e.g., Mead, 1934Mead, /1962 would play a role in the development of the theories of that have come to characterize social psychology and its parallels with extended cognition.…”

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Lessons and new directions for extended cognition from social and personality psychology

Skorburg

2017

Philosophical Psychology

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This paper aims to expand the range of empirical work relevant to the extended cognition debates. First, I trace the historical development of the person-situation debate in social and personality psychology and the extended cognition debate in the philosophy of mind. Next, I highlight some instructive similarities between the two and consider possible objections to my comparison. I then argue that the resolution of the person-situation debate in terms of interactionism lends support for an analogously interactionist conception of extended cognition. I argue that this interactionism might necessitate a shift away from the dominant agent-artifact paradigm toward an agent-agent paradigm. If this is right, then social and personality psychology-the discipline(s) that developed from the person-situation debate-opens a whole new range of empirical considerations for extended cognition theorists which align with Clark & Chalmers original vision of agents themselves as spread into the world.

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Pragmatic Interventions Into Enactive and Extended Conceptions of Cognition

Cited by 41 publications

References 51 publications

FridaysForFuture as an Enactive Network: Collective Agency for the Transition Towards Sustainable Development

FridaysForFuture as an Enactive Network: Collective Agency for the Transition Towards Sustainable Development

Enactive individuation: technics, temporality and affect in digital design and fabrication

Lessons and new directions for extended cognition from social and personality psychology

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