4E Cognitive Science and Wittgenstein

This book demonstrates for the first time how the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein can transform 4E Cognitive Science. In particular, it shows how insights from Wittgenstein can empower those within 4E to reject the long held view that our minds must involve representations inside our heads.

The book begins by showing how proponents of 4E are divided amongst themselves. Proponents of Extended Mind insist that internal representations are always needed to explain the human mind. However, proponents of Enacted Mind reject this claim. Using insights from Ludwig Wittgenstein, the book introduces and defends a new theoretical framework called Structural Enacted or Extended Mind (STEEM). STEEM brings together Enacted Mind and Extended Mind in a way that rejects all talk of internal representations. STEEM thus highlights the anti-representationalist credentials of 4E and so demonstrates how 4E can herald a new beginning when it comes to thinking about the mind.

Demonstrates how the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein can transform 4E Cognitive Science Provides an in-depth analysis of Extended Mind and Enacted Mind Defends a new theoretical framework called Structural Enacted or Extended Mind (STEEM)

Auteur
Dr. Victor Loughlin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His work has been published in journals including Synthese, the European Journal of Philosophy and Philosophia. Further details about him can be found at his website: victorlouglin.com

Contenu

1. Introduction.- 1.1. Thinking with and through Wittgenstein.- 1.2. Summaries of the chapters.- 2. First and Second Wave Extended Mind.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. First Wave Extended Mind.- 2.3. Snakes and Adders.- 2.4. Second Wave Extended Mind.- 2.5. Conclusion.- 3. Radical and Sensorimotor Enacted Mind.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. Radical Enactive or Embodied Mind (REC).- 3.3. Sensorimotor Enactivism.- 3.4. The Representationalist Objection (RO).- 3.5. Conclusion.- 4. Wittgenstein on rules.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Internal Relations.- 4.3. Rules and the Process Model.- 4.4. Enacting rules.- 4.5. Conclusion.- 5. Making sense of our minds.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Minds are strange things?.- 5.3. Feeling pain.- 5.4. Making sense of our talk about the mind.- 5.5. Conclusion.- 6. Structural Enacted or Extended Mind (STEEM).- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. Challenging the Representational Orthodoxy.- 6.3. Structural Enacted Mind.- 6.4. Structural Extended Mind.- 6.5. Full STEEM ahead