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  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Embodied Cognition

Background:

  • The received view in cognitive science posits that cognition fundamentally relies on contentful mental representation.
  • Radical enactive and embodied approaches challenge this representationalist orthodoxy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the implications of representationalism's fate for understanding the scope of cognition.
  • To argue that abandoning representationalism for pure functionalism fails to provide a "mark of the cognitive" and adequate means for individuating cognitive activity.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation
  • Conceptual analysis
  • Critique of representationalism and functionalism

Main Results:

  • Pure empirical functionalism lacks a substantive "mark of the cognitive".
  • Commonsense functionalism's legitimacy is questioned when considering folk psychological concepts.
  • Extensive enactivism is proposed as a distinct alternative to extended mind and distributed cognition.

Conclusions:

  • Moves away from representationalism toward empirical functionalism are insufficient for defining cognition.
  • Extensive enactivism offers a more robust framework for understanding cognitive activity than extended functionalism.
  • The study advocates for extensive enactivism, differentiating it from extended mind and distributed cognition concepts.