Breathing new life into cognitive science

• Authors: Tom Froese

Title variants

PL

Tchnąć nowe życie w kognitywistykę

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

Abstract In this article I take an unusual starting point from which to argue for a unified cognitive science, namely a position defined by what is sometimes called the ‘life-mind continuity thesis’. Accordingly, rather than taking a widely accepted starting point for granted and using it in order to propose answers to some well defined questions, I must first establish that the idea of life-mind continuity can amount to a proper starting point at all. To begin with, I therefore assess the conceptual tools which are available to construct a theory of mind on this basis. By drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines, especially from a combination of existential phenomenology and organism-centered biology, I argue that mind can indeed be conceived as rooted in life, but only if we accept at the same time that social interaction plays a constitutive role for our cognitive capacities.

Keywords

EN

AUTOPOIESIS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; ENACTIVISM; MIND; PHENOMENOLOGY

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych - Centre for Philosophical Research
• Journal: Avant
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 113–129 (pl: 95-111)

Contributors

author

Tom Froese

• Ikegami Lab University of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan