Auf „gelebte Erfahrung“ konzentrierte Ansätze zum Verständnis menschlicher Tätigkeit

This introduction to a thematic issue reviews how lived experience can be studied within situated, embodied, and distributed (4E) approaches to cognition. It traces the history of methods for investigating lived experience, the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic perspectives, and different levels of description of activity. The article presents the issue's contributions as examples of multi-method and multi-level articulations. It argues that such articulatory methodological approaches are especially relevant for addressing transformative issues and for studying objects grounded in an embedded, embodied, extended, and enacted conception of cognition.

Study at a glance

Abstract

This introductory article begins by situating the study of lived experience within situated, embodied and distributed approaches to cognition. It then reviews the history of the development of methods for investigating lived experience, as well as the articulation of intrinsic and extrinsic perspectives and different levels of description of activity. These positions make it possible to present the various articles in this thematic issue, highlighting their contribution to 'multi-method' and 'multi-level' articulations. Finally, this introduction shows that articulatory methodological approaches appear to be particularly relevant for tackling transformative issues and investing certain objects rooted in a embedded, embodied, extended and enacted conception of cognition.