Sensorimotor Life: An enactive proposal

Enactive ideas are applied and extended, providing a theoretically rich, naturalistic account of meaning and agency. Additionally, the book is of interest to neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers of science.. The book includes a dynamical systems description of different types of sensorimotor regularities or sensorimotor contingencies; a dynamical interpretation of Piaget's theory of equilibration to ground the concept of sensorimotor mastery; and a theory of agency as organized networks of sensorimotor schemes, as well as its implications for embodied subjectivity.Written for students and researchers of cognitive science, the authors offer a fuller view of the mind, a view better attuned to the experiences of people who live, work, love, struggle, and age, thrown into a world of meaningful relations they help create. How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds work - how we learn about the world and how we remember people and events - may feel dissatisfied with the answers contemporary science has to offer.Sensorimotor Life draws on current theoretical developments in the enactive approach to life and mind. It examines and expands the premises of the science

This is the best and most convincing account to date."- Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA. "The authors explore in careful and beautiful detail the enactive conception of perception, action, and agency, building on and pushing forward an alternative, non-representational account of sensorimotor engagement. They take us beyond abstract arguments into an analysis informed by the rich particulars of phenomenology and empirical science