1st Edition
Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition Conceptual Analysis, Embodiment, and Situatedness
This volume represents the first comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to exploring the conceptual and methodological intersections and tensions between analytic philosophy and the embodied–embedded approach to cognitive science, commonly referred to as "e-cognition."
Following an introductory chapter by the editor, which situates the discussion within its broader philosophical landscape, the contributors address a range of themes that traverse both analytic philosophy and 4E-cognition. These include skillful coping, habit formation, the nature and status of representations, consciousness, communication, and the social and political implications of embodied and situated approaches. The volume also examines how various theoretical traditions—such as ecological psychology, teleosemantics, enactivism, the Pittsburgh School, and intentional realism—engage with and apply these ideas.
Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition: Conceptual Analysis, Embodiment, and Situatedness will appeal to advanced students and scholars in analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology, as well as those working in cognitive science with an interest in embodied and situated cognition.
Introduction
1. Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition: friends or foes?
Manuel Heras-Escribano
Part 1: The analytic tradition through the 4E perspective
2. Capturing the ordinary
Alva Noë
3. Ecological psychology as critical direct realism
Carl B. Sachs
4. Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature
Vicente Raja and Anthony Chemero
5. Ecological psychology and the behaviorist bogeyman
Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Inés Abalo-Rodríguez
6. Being a good gadfly: radical enactivism’s positively revisionary approach to cognitive science
Daniel D. Hutto
7. Neo-Pragmatism and the natural origins of content
Daniel Martínez Moreno and Manuel Heras-Escribano
8. Eliminativism is at the Heart of E-Cognition
Luis H. Favela
Part 2: From skills and habits to language and communication
9. Skillful coping in the metaverse: on the challenges of immersion
Marta Pérez Verdugo
10. The organismic turn. Teleosemantics after 4E
Xabier E. Barandiaran and Tiago Rama
11. Communication beyond Inferentialism and Individualism
Glenda Satne
12. Linguistic relativity and embodiment
Fernando Martínez-Manrique
Part 3: Ethical and political implications
13. Situated agency: a Wittgensteinian exploration
Annemarie Kalis
14. Recognition and the grounding of normativity
Laura Mojica
15. Embodied, embedded, enactive, extended… and exclusionary? Toward an inclusive E-Cognition for cognitive diversity
Víctor Fernández-Castro and Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo
16. Adaptive preferences and extended cognition
Gloria Andrada
Biography
Manuel Heras-Escribano is Profesor Titular at the University of Granada, Spain.
