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  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind

Background:

  • Enactive approaches in cognitive science aim to explain cognition without internal, content-carrying representations.
  • A key challenge is explaining 'representation-hungry' domains like imagination, memory, and planning without internal mental representations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate how representation-hunger can be satisfied without internal representational states.
  • To develop a theoretical framework integrating enactive cognitive science and ecological psychology.
  • To argue against sharp distinctions between higher and lower cognition based on representation-hunger.

Main Methods:

  • Integration of enactive cognitive science principles (continuity of cognition) and ecological psychology (affordances).
  • Conceptualizing representation-hungry cognition as temporally extended activities coordinated with environmental affordances.
  • Analyzing cognition through the lens of skillful coordination within socio-material practices.

Main Results:

  • A novel framework is proposed that explains representation-hungry cognition through skillful coordination with affordances.
  • The continuity thesis from enactive science is extended to challenge representation-based distinctions in cognition.
  • The integrated approach offers resources to address skeptical challenges to non-representational cognitive science.

Conclusions:

  • Cognition, even in representation-hungry domains, can be understood as skillful, temporally extended activity.
  • Ecological and enactive theories provide a robust foundation for a non-representational, non-computational cognitive science.
  • The proposed framework effectively addresses the Representation-Hungry Challenge, showcasing the power of integrated approaches.