The Forgotten Phenomenology: “Enactive Perception” in the Eyes of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy December 2, 2022 Roi Bar 2 citations
This paper compares the enactive approach to perception, which has recently emerged in cognitive science, with the phenomenological approach. Inspired by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the enactive theorists Alva Noë and Evan Thompson take perception to be a result of the interaction between the brain, the body and the environment. Their argument turns mostly on the role of self-motion and...