Embodiment, Cognition and the World Wide Web
Routledge eBooks February 17, 2015 DOI: 10.4324/9781315775845.ch31 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 39 |
| Key points | Describes embodied cognition and the broader "4E" (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) approaches as sharing a commitment that material embodiment and environmental embedding play explanatorily significant roles in understanding human cognitive success, while noting subtle differences among these approaches. |
Abstract
Introduction Embodied cognition forms part of an increasingly popular trend in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science which emphasizes the role played by extra-neural and extra-corporeal factors in human cognitive processing (Clark, 2008; Shapiro, 2011). It sits alongside a number of other areas of research, which we can collectively refer to as embodied, embedded, enactive and extended (4E) approaches to cognition. Although subtle differences exist between these approaches, what they have in common is a commitment to the idea that issues of material embodiment and environmental embedding play explanatorily significant roles in our understanding of human cognitive success.