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Alvaro David Monterroza-Rios

2 papers in the library · 18 citations · publishing 2022-2025

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Commentary on the Practical and Material Dimension of Imagination

Imagination, Cognition and Personality June 13, 2025 Alvaro David Monterroza-Rios, Stephania Vivas-Lozano

Imagination is a primordial cognitive capacity that enables humans to transcend their immediate reality and explore a world of possibilities. Traditionally, it has been understood as a purely mental, internal faculty resulting from introspective intellectual exercise. However, imaginative capacities would be severely limited without practical interaction. Accordingly, this paper adopts a...

Enactivism and Material Culture: How Enactivism Could Redefine Enculturation Processes

Philosophies July 4, 2022 Alvaro David Monterroza-Rios, Carlos Mario Gutiérrez-aguilar 18 citations

Culture has traditionally been considered as a set of knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, norms, and morals, acquired by a human being as a member of a group. Some anthropologists interpret this as a set of abstract representations, such as information or knowledge, while others interpret it as behavioral control mechanisms. These views assume that the contents of a particular culture must be...