Enactivism Reading Group (LV / Hauptseminar)

BA-KulT PHIL 3

BA-KulT FW 4, 6

MA-PHIL 2

MA-TGWT PHIL 4

MA-PHIL FW 25, 27

Phil FüS III

SE/HS                           Enactivism Reading Group

Di. 14-16 Uhr

Online-Seminar (Anmeldung über ISIS)

Beginn: 19.10.2021

This seminar focuses on the research programme of autopoietic enactivism. Autopoietic enactivism is an alternative to the traditional computationalist theories of cognition. According to autopoietic enactivism, cognition is intimately connected to the way in which living organisms act in their environment and maintain their identity and organisation. Living organisms, according to enactivists, constitute themselves and their environment by projecting a network of values on the outside world, rooted in their need to preserve their organismic unity.

Our primary text for this seminar will be Varela et al.’s The Embodied Mind which connects biology, cognitive science and insights from Buddhist philosophy into a classic formulation of the enactive view of mind.

Literaturverweis:

Varela, F.J, Thompson, E. & Rosch. E. (2017). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Revised ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.