From Life to Higher Cognition: Autonomy, Know-How and the Radical Turn.
This paper defends the partial continuities—that are sometimes called "kinks"—in the evolutionary trajectory from biology to cognition and from basic to higher cognition. Building on Radical Enactivism (Hutto and Myin in Radicalizing enactivism: basic minds without content, MIT Press, Cambridge, 201...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 321 - 330 |
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