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Sensorimotor Life

Di Paolo, Ezequiel, Buhrmann, Thomas, Barandiaran, Xabier·2017·Oxford Scholarship Online
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198786849.001.0001
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This book elaborates a series of contributions to a non–representational theory of action and perception. It is based on current theoretical developments in the enactive approach to life and mind. These enactive ideas are applied and extended to provide a theoretically rich, naturalistic account of sensorimotor meaning and agency. This account supplies non–representational extensions to the sensorimotor approach to perceptual experience based on the notion of the living body as a self–organizing dynamic system in coupling with the environment. The enactive perspective entails the use of world–involving explanations, in which processes external to an agent co–constitute mental phenomena in ways that cannot be reduced to the supply of information for internal processing. These contributions to sensorimotor theories are 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, with its implications for sensorimotor subjectivity. New tools are provided for examining the organization, development, and operation of networks of sensorimotor schemes that compose regional activities and genres of action with their own situated norms. This permits the exploration of new explanations for the phenomenology of agency experience that are favorably contrasted with traditional computational approaches and lead to new empirical predictions. From these proposals, capabilities once beyond the reach of enactive explanations, such as the possibility of virtual actions and the adoption of socially mediated abstract perceptual attitudes, can be addressed.

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Authors
Di Paolo, E., Buhrmann, T., & Barandiaran, X.
ORCID
Barandiaran, Xabier
Venue
Oxford Scholarship Online
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2017-06-22
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198786849.001.0001
OpenAlex
W3001991410
Cited by
420
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0
Citations by year
2026: 55 · 2025: 69 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 51 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 3
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25.22
Type
book
Language
en
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closed
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Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Keywords
enactivism, sensorimotor theory, perception, agency, sensorimotor contingencies, dynamical systems, phenomenology of agency

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