Volume 11, Number 2
March 2016
Special Issue “Exploring the Diversity within Enactivism and Neurophenomenology”, edited by Tom Froese, Sebastjan Vörös & Alexander Riegler
Cover Art: “Sans titre” © Melle, 2016, Mixed technique, 30 x 40cm
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Lived Experience and Cognitive Science Reappraising Enactivism’s Jonasian Turn
Confusion of Reflective Domains?
Can the Lived Experience of Living Beings Be Approached through Inference?
Sweeping Anthropomorphism Under the MAT
Is Intentionality Banned from Sciences of the Living Being?
Modern Anthropomorphism and Phenomenological Method
Varela’s Sixth Step: Teleology and the Re-Visioning of Science
Phenomenological Teleology and Human Interactivity
Authors’ Response: Enactivism, Cognitive Science, and the Jonasian Inference
Interactivity and Enaction in Human Cognition
Enaction, and Its Relation to Science in an Objective Key
Interactivity Should Aim to Extend, Not Reject, the Conceptual Foundations of Enaction
What Is at Stake in the Disagreement Between Interactivity and Enaction?
The Role of Allostasis in Sense-Making: A Better Fit for Interactivity than Cybernetic-Enactivism?
Authors’ Response: Explanatory Pluralism and Precise Conceptual Development
Sensorimotor Direct Realism: How We Enact Our World
Who is “We”? Some Observations on Sensorimotor Direct Realism
The Epistemological Dance: Difference, Experience and Representation
Representationalism and the Sensorimotor Theory
The Role of External Objects in Perceptual Experience
How Far Can Sensorimotor Direct Realism Go?
Author’s Response: The Personal Level in Sensorimotor Theory
Perception-Action Mutuality Obviates Mental Construction
Embracing the Environment: Ecological Answers for Enactive Problems
Enactivism and Ecological Psychology: Divided by Common Ground
Enactive affordances and the interplay of biological and phenomenological subjectivity
Radical Enactivism and Ecological Psychology: Friends or Foes?
Learning of New Percept-Action Mappings Is a Constructive Process of Goal-Directed Self-Modification
Enactivism Embraces Ecological Psychology
Across the Uncanny Valley: The Ecological, the Enactive, and the Strangely Familiar
One World, Multiple Organisms: Specificity /Autocatakinetics versus Enactivism/Autopoiesis
The Ontology of Perception: Agency, Evolution and Representationalism
Authors’ Response: Complementarity of Symmetry and Asymmetry
Never Mind the Gap: Neurophenomenology, Radical Enactivism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
On the Too Often Overlooked Radicality of Neurophenomenology
Not to Avoid But Legitimize: Why the Gap Could Be Natural For the Enactive World
The Gap Or Not The Gap: Is That The Neurophenomenological Question?
Not-Quite-So Radical Enactivism
Identity or Dynamic Structure?
Crossing the Explanatory Gap by Legwork, not by Fiat
Down the “Preferred Path”: Dispositional Flexibility Constitutes Phenomenal Character
Missing Out On the Radicalism of Neurophenomenology?
Authors’ Response: Mind Never The Gap, Redux
Going Beyond Theory: Constructivism and Empirical Phenomenology
On the Necessity of Foundations, Intersubjectivity and Cognitive Science
Phenomenology as Critique, Discovery, and Justification
Notes on the Coupling between the Observer and the Observed in Psycho-Phenomenology
Intersubjectivity in the Study of Experience
What Kind of Epistemic Activity is Expert Introspection?
Constitution: Epistemological and Ontological
Author’s Response: Persevering with the Non-Trivial
In Search of a New Looking Glass: Cognitive Science Is Not Dead, It Is Just Asleep
Dreaming: Ontological and Methodological Considerations
Dreams: An Experimental Laboratory of Phenomenology
Enactive Consciousness and Gendlin’s Dream Analysis
We Need to Go Deeper! Conceptual and Methodological Considerations on the Depth of Dream Experience
Authors’ Response: Towards a Neurophenomenology of Embodied, Skillful Dreaming