Henrique Mendes

The exceptionality of enactivism within 4E cognition

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences February 13, 2026 Henrique Mendes 1 citation

Abstract This article critically examines the theoretical landscape of 4E cognition—embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition—to assess whether it constitutes a true departure from the traditional framework in the cognitive sciences grounded in computationalism, representationalism, functionalism, internalism, and realism. While many proponents of 4E cognition claim to defend such a...