Topoi
November 12, 2025
M. Heras-Escribano
Neo-pragmatists claim that individual intelligence derives from socio-normative practices and not the other way round. However, this leads to the neo-pragmatist problem of the origins of content, which can be summarized as follows: if intentionality only derives from social practices, how is it possible that the capacities needed to explain participation in those social practices could be in...
Theory & Psychology
August 1, 2025
M. Heras-Escribano, Pablo López-silva, Lorena Lobo
In this paper we defend the idea that ecological psychology is in a good position for making sense of bodily experience by naturalizing some of the most important features of Husserlian lived experience, such as kinesthetics or proprioception. Some postcognitivist researchers have suggested that the notion of lived experience, originated in Husserl’s phenomenological project, is fundamental to...
Philosophia
April 1, 2025
G. Cruz, M. Heras-Escribano
In his work, Hubert L. Dreyfus identified Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world with skillful bodily adjustment, i.e. skillful coping. This interpretation has been very influential in the literature, especially for embodied and situated cognition. In this article we challenge such identification, as we think that it overlooks the hermeneutic dimension of Heidegger’s thought in which...
Philosophies
April 25, 2024
M. Heras-Escribano, Daniel Martínez Moreno
Radical enactivism supports radical embodied cognition (REC), which is the idea that basic or fundamental cognition (perception and action) does not need to be understood in representational, contentful terms. REC departs from the idea that the mind can be naturalized through biological functions, but rejects the idea that mental content, which is understood as having a representational nature,...
Frontiers in Psychology
November 27, 2018
Lorena Lobo, M. Heras-Escribano, David Travieso
148 citations
Ecological Psychology is an embodied, situated, and non-representational approach pioneered by J. J. Gibson and E. J. Gibson. This theory aims to offer a third way beyond cognitivism and behaviorism for understanding cognition. The theory started with the rejection of the premise of the poverty of the stimulus, the physicalist conception of the stimulus, and the passive character of the...