Enactivism and the Hegelian Stance on Intrinsic Purposiveness
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences July 7, 2022 A. Gambarotto, M. Mossio 13 citations
We characterize Hegel’s stance on biological purposiveness as consisting in a twofold move, which conceives organisms as intrinsically purposive natural systems and focuses on their behavioral and cognitive abilities. We submit that a Hegelian stance is at play in enactivism, the branch of the contemporary theory of biological autonomy devoted to the study of cognition and the mind. What is at...