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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 775-792, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
wiley   +1 more source

Extensive enactivism: why keep it all in? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Radical enactive and embodied approaches to cognitive science oppose the received view in the sciences of the mind in denying that cognition fundamentally involves contentful mental representation. This paper argues that the fate of representationalism in cognitive science matters significantly to how best to understand the extent of cognition.
Daniel Douglas Hutto   +3 more
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Guessing at Ghosts in the Machine

open access: yesRatio, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 73-81, June 2026.
ABSTRACT As AI grows ever more complex and ubiquitous, its moral status becomes increasingly pressing. But knowing whether an AI has moral status is only part of the ethical puzzle. To determine how we ought to treat such entities, we must know not only whether AIs have moral status, but also about the content of their interests—what contributes to ...
Helen Yetter‐Chappell
wiley   +1 more source

Wittgenstein’s challenge to enactivism

open access: yesSynthese, 2019
Many authors have identified a link between later Wittgenstein and enactivism. But few have also recognised how Wittgenstein may in fact challenge enactivist approaches. In this paper, I consider one such challenge. For example, Wittgenstein is well known for his discussion of seeing-as, most famously through his use of Jastrow’s ambiguous duck-rabbit ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Enactive Pragmatism and Ecological Psychology

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
A widely cited roadblock to bridging ecological psychology and enactivism is that the former identifies with realism and the latter identifies with constructivism, which critics charge is subjectivist.
Matthew Crippen, Matthew Crippen
doaj   +1 more source

Wittgenstein, normativity and the ‘space of reasons’

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 195-211, April 2026.
Abstract Wittgenstein's naturalism illuminates our ordinary normative practices of giving and asking for reasons and also related ‘philosophical’ conceptions of knowledge inspired by, for example, Sellars's image of the ‘space of reasons’. Some propose that the relevant naturalism motivates scepticism about the ‘space of reasons’ insofar as it ...
Benedict Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Radical enactivism and conservative cognitive science. [PDF]

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2015
Review of: D. D. Hutto and E. Myin, E. Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content. MIT Press 2013.
Tomasz Korbak
doaj  

An enactivist-inspired mathematical model of cognition

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022
In this paper we start from the philosophical position in cognitive science known as enactivism. We formulate five basic enactivist tenets that we have carefully identified in the relevant literature as the main underlying principles of that philosophy ...
Vadim Weinstein   +2 more
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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

What do aesthetic affordances afford?

open access: yesEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2022
This paper explores various notions of aesthetic affordance recently developed through embodied, situated and enactive approaches to aesthetic experience by Maria Brincker and Shaun Gallagher, and the similarities and differences between them and the ...
Carlos Vara Sánchez
doaj   +1 more source

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