This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to                  cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to                  cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computational Theory of Mind (CTM).                  Enaction, first articulated by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch in The Embodied Mind (MIT                  Press, 1991), breaks from CTM's formalisms of information processing and symbolic                  representations to view cognition as grounded in the sensorimotor dynamics of the                  interactions between a living organism and its environment. A living organism enacts                  the world it lives in; its embodied action in the world constitutes its perception                  and thereby grounds its cognition. Enaction offers a range of perspectives on this                  exciting new approach to embodied cognitive science. Some chapters offer manifestos                  for the enaction paradigm; others address specific areas of research, including                  artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, neuroscience, language,                  phenomenology, and culture and cognition. Three themes emerge as testimony to the                  originality and specificity of enaction as a paradigm: the relation between                  first-person lived experience and third-person natural science; the ambition to                  provide an encompassing framework applicable at levels from the cell to society; and                  the difficulties of reflexivity. Taken together, the chapters offer nothing less                  than the framework for a far-reaching renewal of cognitive science.Contributors                  Renaud Barbaras, Didier Bottineau, Giovanna Colombetti, Diego Cosmelli, Hanne De                  Jaegher, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. Andreas K. Engel, Olivier Gapenne, V?ronique                  Havelange, Edwin Hutchins, Michel Le Van Quyen, Rafael E. N??ez, Marieke Rohde,                  Benny Shanon, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adam Sheya, Linda B. Smith, John Stewart,                  Evan Thompson

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