Intensional biases in affordance perception: an explanatory issue for radical enactivism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-02049-w
Abstract: Radical Enactivism holds that the best explanation of basic forms of cognition is provided without involving information of any sort. According to this view, the ability to perceive visual affordances should be accounted for in… read more here.
Keywords: issue radical; perception; explanatory issue; radical enactivism ... See more keywords
Against Radical Enactivism’s narrowmindedness about phenomenality
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02261-2
Abstract: Radical Enactivism rejects representationalism but nonetheless allows the phenomenal character of perceptual experience as supervening on brain bound elements. In this paper, I argue that Radical Enactivism should reject the possibility of wholly brain-bound phenomenal… read more here.
Keywords: enactivism narrowmindedness; narrowmindedness phenomenality; radical enactivism; enactivism ... See more keywords
Revaluing the behaviorist ghost in enactivism and embodied cognition
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02432-1
Abstract: Despite its short historical moment in the sun, behaviorism has become something akin to a theoria non grata , a position that dare not be explicitly endorsed. The reasons for this are complex, of course,… read more here.
Keywords: ghost; revaluing behaviorist; behaviorism; enactivism ... See more keywords
Lessons from a virtual slime: marginal mechanisms, minimal cognition and radical enactivism
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DOI: 10.1177/1059712318824544
Abstract: Radical enactivism (REC) and similar embodied and enactive approaches to the mind deny that cognition is fundamentally representational, skull-bound and mechanistic in its organisation. In this article, I argue that modellers may still adopt a… read more here.
Keywords: virtual slime; slime marginal; radical enactivism; enactivism ... See more keywords