Autonomy and Enactivism: Towards a Theory of Sensorimotor Autonomous Agency.
The concept of 'autonomy', once at the core of the original enactivist proposal in The Embodied Mind (Varela et al. in The embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991), is nowadays ignored or neglected by some of the most prominent contemporary enactivists appro...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 409 - 431 |
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