The ethics of sense-making.

Area of Science:

• Enactive cognitive science
• Applied ethics
• Embodied cognition

Background:

• Enactive ethics is an emerging interdisciplinary field.
• Sense-making involves embodied interpretation of surroundings and one's role.
• Ethical implications arise from varied sense-making approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

• To establish an "ethics of sense-making" grounded in enactive cognitive science.
• To explore how sense-making influences ethical actions, relationships, and well-being.
• To advocate for accountability in sense-making for ethical improvement.

Main Methods:

• Conceptual analysis applying enactive cognitive science principles to ethics.
• Philosophical argumentation for the existence and importance of an ethics of sense-making.
• Exploration of the impact of sense-making on individual and relational ethics.

Main Results:

• Sense-making is an embodied, interpretive activity central to human experience.
• Sense-making can be performed in ethically superior or inferior ways.
• Holding individuals responsible for their sense-making can lead to ethical transformation.

Conclusions:

• An ethics of sense-making offers a novel framework for ethical inquiry.
• Transforming sense-making practices can significantly enhance ethical conduct and eudaimonic well-being.
• This approach emphasizes the ethical significance of everyday interpretive activities.