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Agency From a Radical Embodied Standpoint: An Ecological-Enactive Proposal
1School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Frontiers in Psychology
|July 17, 2020
Summary
This study proposes a radical embodied theory of agency, integrating ecological psychology and enactivism. It explains how organism-environment interactions, perception, and sensorimotor habits shape our actions and social behaviors.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Mind
- Embodied Cognition
Background:
- Explaining agency is a key challenge in cognitive science.
- Non-representationalist approaches, like enactivism and ecological psychology, focus on organism-environment relations but differ in emphasis.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a radical embodied account of agency.
- To integrate ecological psychology with enactive cognitive science.
- To explain how socio-cultural norms shape human agency.
Main Methods:
- Synthesizing concepts from ecological psychology and enactivism.
- Describing sensorimotor schemes and habits equilibration (enactivism).
- Analyzing perceptual information's role without mediating representations (ecological psychology).
Main Results:
- A unified ecological-enactive theory of agency is presented.
- This theory explains how acquired habits and environmental affordances guide action.
- It accounts for the influence of socio-cultural norms on agency.
Conclusions:
- The proposed theory offers a novel framework for understanding embodied agency.
- It bridges enactivism and ecological psychology for a comprehensive view of action.
- This approach sheds light on the dynamic interplay between individual agency and social context.
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