Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Massimiliano Cappuccio, Tom Froese

      Pages 1-33

3. Theory and Method

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Breaking the Perception-Action Cycle: Experimental Phenomenology of Non-Sense and its Implications for Theories of Perception and Movement Science

      • Dobromir Dotov, Anthony Chemero

      Pages 37-60

   3. Making Sense of Non-Sense in Physics: The Quantum Koan

      • Michel Bitbol

      Pages 61-80

   4. The Plight of the Sense-Making Ape

      • David A. Leavens

      Pages 81-104

   5. Immune Self and Non-Sense

      • John Stewart

      Pages 105-122

4. Experience and Psychopathology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. The Surprise of Non-Sense

      • Natalie Depraz

      Pages 125-152

   3. Learning to Perceive What We Do Not Yet Understand: Letting the World Guide Us

      • Michael Beaton

      Pages 153-180

   4. No Non-Sense without Imagination: Schizophrenic Delusion as Reified Imaginings Unchallengeable by Perception

      • Daria Dibitonto

      Pages 181-203

5. Language and Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. On Being Mindful about Misunderstandings in Languaging: Making Sense of Non-Sense as the Way to Sharing Linguistic Meaning

      • Elena Clare Cuffari

      Pages 207-237

   3. Deleuze and the Enaction of Non-Sense

      • William Michael Short, Wilson Shearin, Alistair Welchman

      Pages 238-265

   4. Traditional Shamanism as Embodied Expertise on Sense and Non-Sense

      • Juan C. Gonzalez

      Pages 266-284

   5. Making (Non)sense of Gender

      • Michele Merritt

      Pages 285-306

6. Back Matter

   Pages 307-317

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The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account for the more uniquely human aspects of cognition, including the abstract and the nonsensical.

• Enactive Cognitive Science
• Embodied Cognition
• Situated Cognition
• Embodied Mind
• Breakdowns
• Non-Sense
• Uncanny
• Symbolic Cognition
• Limits of Cognition
• Uniquely Human Cognition
• Life-Mind Continuity Thesis
• Cultural Cognition
• cognition
• Embodiment
• learning
• mind
• perception

“It provides an important contribution to the enactive project of clarifying what cognition viewed as sense-making consist of. The book’s originality lies in its unusual angle on the topic, namely by focussing on forms of sense-making … . It offers plenty of interdisciplinary insight and both theoretical and empirical support to the idea that nonsense, far from being a marginal side-effect or the opposite of cognition, is a window into the very workings of the embodied mind.” (Miriam Kyselo, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 18, 2019)

• United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  Massimiliano Cappuccio

• Universidad National Auionoma de Mexico, Mexico

  Tom Froese

Michael Beaton, University of the Basque Country, Spain Michel Bitbol, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati, USA Elena Clare Cuffari, University of the Basque Country, Spain Natalie Depraz, University of Rouen (ERIAC), France Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, the Basque Science Foundation, Spain Daria Dibitonto, Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Dobromir Dotov, Université Montpellier-1, France Juan C. González, Morelos State University (UAEM), Mexico David A. Leavens, University of Sussex, UK Michele Merritt, Arkansas State University, USA Wilson Shearin, University of Miami, USA William Michael Short, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA John Stewart, Technological University of Compiègne, France Alistair Welchman, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA

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