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  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Ecological Psychology

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  • Non-representational cognitive theories face challenges in explaining long-term planning.
  • Cognitivist accounts typically rely on mental representations for planning and action coordination.
  • Ecological-enactivist approaches have proposed ways to account for high-level cognitive capacities without representations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate an explanatory gap in current non-representational accounts of long-term planning.
  • To argue for the importance of long-term intentions in action coordination and perception within ecological frameworks.
  • To propose a non-representational conception of intentions and their role in coordinating action.

Main Methods:

  • Critically analyze existing ecological-enactivist proposals for long-term planning.
  • Utilize recent enactive accounts of language to inform the conception of intentions.
  • Develop a theoretical account of "distal engagement" for coordinating present actions towards future goals.

Main Results:

  • Identified an explanatory gap in non-representational accounts due to the exclusion of long-term intentions.
  • Argued that intentions can be understood non-representationally, emerging from linguistically scaffolded practices.
  • Proposed "distal engagement" as a skill for coordinating actions toward distant goals without explicit representations.

Conclusions:

  • Long-term intentions are crucial for explaining planning and action coordination, even in non-representational frameworks.
  • A non-representational understanding of intentions, informed by language use, can bridge the explanatory gap.
  • The concept of distal engagement offers a novel way to understand goal-directed behavior without recourse to mental representations.