We are currently witnessing not just an interactive, but an intersubjective turn in social cognition research.
In this chapter – a draft for an Oxford Handbook on Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Extended Cognition – I explain why I think this is so, and how the framework of participatory sense-making can support this intersubjective turn.
Will cognitivist, functionalist theories of mind be able to capture how we interact with institutions? In this paper, I argue that they cannot. I propose that functionalism is inherently restricted to dealing with rule-based, hierarchical structures, and cannot deal with the democratic, fluid, embodied, and horizontal aspects of society. The paper puts Carol Gilligan’s work in […]
A new paper is now available exploring the implications of participatory sense-making for social neuroscience. The Interactive Brain Hypothesis Ezequiel Di Paolo & Hanne De Jaegher Abstract. Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific studies involving actual interactions, the […]
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