Addressing the issue of naturalism in autopoietic enactivism through genetic and material phenomenology
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy May 8, 2020 Andrea Gionnotta
A central idea in autopoietic enactivism is that the living organism is an autonomous system that “enacts” or “brings forth” its environment. In this paper, I connect this thesis to the general philosophical framework developed by Varela, Thompson and Rosch in The Embodied Mind, which is centred on the concept of the co-determination of subject and object of cognition, and I liken this notion...