Robotics can play a useful role in the scientific understanding of the sense of self, both
through the construction of embodied models of the self and through the use of robots as …

Just over 25 years ago, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch published
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (TEM). An ambitious …

Ecological Psychology and Enactivism both challenge representationist cognitive science,
but the two approaches have only begun to engage in dialogue. Further conceptual …

This book is co-authored by Alexei Sharov (first author) and Morten Tønnessen (second
author). The authors share an interest in examining fundamental issues about the nature of …

Enactive approaches to cognitive science aim to explain human cognitive processes across
the board without making any appeal to internal, content-carrying representational states. A …

Converging theories suggest that organisms learn and exploit probabilistic models of their
environment. However, it remains unclear how such models can be learned in practice. The …

This paper concerns biopsychism, the position that feeling is a vital activity of all organisms
or living beings. It evaluates biopsychism specifically from the perspective of the enactive …

This paper argues that it is possible to combine enactivism and ecological psychology in a
single post-cognitivist research framework if we highlight the common pragmatist …

One of humans' distinctive cognitive abilities is that they develop an array of capacities
through an enculturation process. In “Cognition as a Social Skill,” Sally (Haslanger …

According to the medical model that prevails in the Western world, mental disorder is a form
of illness, parallel to bodily illness, which can be diagnosed by a doctor on the basis of …