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Organism-Environment Codetermination: The Biological Roots of Enactivism

Corris, Amanda B
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5749-0173
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593266129358889

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2020, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Philosophy.
Traditional approaches to cognition take it to be a fundamentally brain-based phenomenon. On this view, the brain functions as a type of information processing center, making cognition a matter of computational processing and representational symbol manipulation. In contrast, embodied, enactive approaches to cognition emphasize the role of the body in cognition and non-representational perception-action dynamics. While the embodied and enactive paradigm has been gaining in popularity, it has yet to adequately engage with complementary approaches in biology that aim to define the organizational structure of organismal life. In this dissertation, I argue that an enactive approach to cognition in nature can be enriched by incorporating the central tenets of both developmental systems theory and extended interpretations of evolutionary biology. This framework, which I term biological enactivism, defines organisms as cognizing systems structured by both their internal dynamics and their dynamic relations with environmental features corresponding to their sensorimotor capacities, developed as a result of their coupled interactions with their environments over both developmental and, on a population scale, evolutionary time.
Anthony Chemero, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Angela Potochnik, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Nathan Morehouse, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Thomas Polger, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
184 p.
Philosophy of Science
cognition; evolution; development; enactivism; reciprocal causation; self organization

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  • Corris, A. B. (2020). Organism-Environment Codetermination: The Biological Roots of Enactivism [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593266129358889

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Corris, Amanda. Organism-Environment Codetermination: The Biological Roots of Enactivism. 2020. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593266129358889.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Corris, Amanda. "Organism-Environment Codetermination: The Biological Roots of Enactivism." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593266129358889

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