Review to Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin’s Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content. MIT Press, 2017.
Marcos Silva, Carlos Brito, Francicleber Ferreira
Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN) September 30, 2019 DOI: 10.21680/1983-2109.2019v26n51id16474 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
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| Key findings | Argues that Hutto and Myin's "Evolving Enactivism" advances their Radical Enactive approach to embodied cognition and addresses the perennial philosophical question of human nature, while noting that the book does not supply a detailed cognitive science theory built on that approach. |
Abstract
In this review, Hutto and Myin’s new book “Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content” (2017) is critically presented. Although they do not provide a detailed cognitive science theory based on their Radical Enactive approach, one may say that Hutto and Myin originally address the perennial philosophical issue about our nature as human beings giving an impossible-to-neglect enactivist contribution to the current state-of-art in the discussion concerning embodied cognition.