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Radicalizing Enactivism : Basic Minds Without Content.

Hutto, Daniel D.

Radicalizing Enactivism : Basic Minds Without Content. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (233 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Enactivism -- The Specter of Enactivism -- Enactivism RECtified -- CIC, REC, and CEC -- A Walk on the Wild Side -- Chapter 2: Enactivisms Less Radical -- Other Enactivisms -- Sensorimotor Enactivism -- Autopoietic Enactivism -- The Information-Processing Challenge -- Chapter 3: The Reach of REC -- Reckoning with REC -- A Helping Hand -- The Non-Standard Ploy: CIC Rescued? -- Chapter 4: The Hard Problem of Content -- Three in One Blow -- Content-What Is It Good For? -- The (Literal) Truth about Information -- Enactivist Makeovers -- Chapter 5: CIC's Retreat -- Falling Back to High Ground -- Hyperintellectualism -- Minimal Intellectualism -- Maximally Minimal Intellectualism -- Chapter 6: CIC's Last Stand -- Once More unto the Breach -- Operation Imagistic Cognition -- Operation Perceptual Science -- The Phenomenal Cavalry? -- The Factual Cavalry? -- Aftermath -- Chapter 7: Extensive Minds -- From Extended to Extensive -- Parity-Motivated EMH -- Complementarity-Motivated EMH -- Partnering Basic Minds with Scaffolded Minds -- Chapter 8: Regaining Consciousness -- Conflations of Consciousness -- Going Wide While Staying In -- Impossible Problems and Real Solutions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality--intentionally directed cognition and perceptual experience--are best understood as embodied yet contentless.

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Cognition-Philosophy.
Philosophy and cognitive science.
Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive science.
Content (Psychology).


Electronic books.

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