REC: Just Radical Enough

• Authors: Erik Myin , Daniel D. Hutto
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We address some frequently encountered criticisms of Radical Embodied/Enactive Cognition. Contrary to the claims that the position is too radical, or not sufficiently so, we claim REC is just radical enough.

Keywords

EN

radical enactivism; representational content; perception; language

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-71

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-07-24

Contributors

author

Erik Myin

• University of Antwerp, Belgium

author

Daniel D. Hutto

• University of Wollongong, Australia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2015-0020