Making sense of sense-making: Reflections on enactive and extended mind theories

Margarita Stapleton

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Abstract

This paper explores some of the differences between the enactive approach in cognitive science and the extended mind thesis. We review the key enactive concepts of autonomy and sense-making. We then focus on the following issues: (1) the debate between internalism and externalism about cognitive processes; (2) the relation between cognition and emotion; (3) the status of the body; and (4) the difference between ‘incorporation’ and mere ‘extension’ in the body-mind-environment relation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23-30
Number of pages7
JournalTopoi
Volume28
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 20 Dec 2008

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • enaction
  • extended mind
  • autonomy
  • sense-making
  • emotion
  • embodiment
  • incorporation

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