The Autonomous Individual

This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self. It synthesizes the new "action turn" from 4E cognitive science with the new "practice turn" from the social sciences to develop a new perspective on our self-interpretation as autonomous individuals.

Autorentext

Martin Weichold is Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He is the author of a book on rationality in unreflective action (2015), as well as of numerous articles on enactive cognitive science, practice theory, and ethics.

Inhalt

1. The Whole Book in One Chapter 2. Explaining Findings about the Human Condition 3. Praxeological Enactivism 4. How Human Organisms Come to Interpret Themselves as Autonomous Individuals 5. Disentangling the Biological Reality, Social Constitution, and Fictional Dimensions of the Idea of the Autonomous Individual 6. Normative Self-Fictionalism