The Ontology of Ecological Cognition

This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on cognition.

Autorentext

Konrad Werner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is the author of The Embodied Philosopher: Living in Pursuit of Boundary Questions (2022) and numerous papers published in journals such as Synthese, Topoi, Erkenntnis, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Constructivist Foundations, among others.

Inhalt

1. Minds and Places: The Need for a Locative Ontology of Cognition 2. The Locative Commitments of Cartesian Cognitive Science 3. The Ecology of Representational Systems 4. Introducing 4E and its Locative Commitments 5. The Cognitive Niche: A Primer 6. The Basic Ontology of the Bounded Locus 7. The Basic Ontology of Niche Construction 8. Prospects for Ecological Internalism