A twofold tale of one mind: revisiting REC's multi-storey story.

The Radical Enactive/Embodied view of Cognition, or REC, claims that all cognition is a matter of skilled performance. Yet REC also makes a distinction between basic and content-involving cognition, arguing that the development of basic to content-involving cognition involves a kink. It might seem t...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 198; no. 12; pp. 12175 - 12194
Autores principales: Myin, Erik, van den Herik, Jasper C.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021
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          Centre for Philosophical Psychology, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgium
          Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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