Autonomy, as proposed by the enactive approach to cognition, is the capacity that living organisms have to follow norms constituted by their own activity. This concept is linked to the concepts of sense-making and participatory sense-making, the former encapsulating the cognizer's ability to bring forth a world of meaning through its coupling with the environment – and being affected by its...
In this contribution I will offer a rough guide through “situated affectivity”, a small galaxy of theories, ideas, intuitions which are recently growing at the boundaries between philosophy of emotion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science. In the last years, we are witnessing a real “affective turn” in the domain of analytic philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and situated...