Varela on the Pragmatic Dimension of Phenomenology
Andrea Pace Giannotta
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Open peer commentary on the article “Varela’s Radical Proposal: How to Embody and Open Up Cognitive Science” by Kristian Moltke Martiny. Upshot: I examine Varela’s relationship with Husserl’s phenomenology, highlighting Varela’s acknowledgment of the pragmatic dimension of its phenomenological reduction. I argue that Varela sees, in some developments of phenomenology, a deconstruction of the subject-object duality and an embodied view of the mind. I also highlight the existential dimension of Varela’s radical proposal, which contributes to further opening up and embodying cognitive science.
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Pace Giannotta A. (2017) Varela on the pragmatic dimension of phenomenology. Constructivist Foundations 13(1): 78–81. http://constructivist.info/13/1/078
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