This paper interrogates philosophically the notion of moral injury, a syndrome that has ethics built into its definition: moral injury is not only a trauma associated with psychological suffering and cognitive disruption; it is also a process of moral degradation and loss of ethical competency. I argue that the enactivist approach to cognition, especially the “patternist” and interactionist...
Mind & SocietyApril 30, 2025J. Colelli, M. di Bernardo, F. Verde3 citations
This article lays the groundwork for a patterned theory of inner speech by rethinking Vygotsky’s notion of internalization in light of 4E cognitive science and phenomenology. We begin by revisiting Vygotsky’s view of linguistic development as a dynamic and socially mediated process of transformation, central to the formation of subjectivity. Rather than treating internalization as a simple...
In this text, I discuss the role that a range of habits in affluent societies play in upholding as well as masking an unsustainable status quo. I show that enactivism, as a philosophical approach to the embodied and embedded mind, offers resources for bringing into focus and critically interrogating such habits of affluence and the environments enabling them. I do this in the context of a...