Christie Stilwell

Painful metaphors: enactivism and art in qualitative research.

Medical Humanities October 19, 2020 Peter Stilwell, Christie Stilwell, Brenda Sabo et al. 23 citations

Enactivism is an emerging theory for sense-making (cognition) with increasing applications to research and medicine. Enactivists reject the idea that sense-making is simply in the head or can be reduced to neural processes. Instead, enactivists argue that cognisers (people) are embodied and action-oriented, and that sense-making emerges from relational processes distributed across the...