Multimodal dynamics of coordination, or Michael Turvey and psychology according to engineers (not only for engineers). Excerpts

A major part of Michael T. Turvey’s contribution to ecological psychology are reflections on the coordination of movement, in particular with regard to the environment. This suggestion plays an important role in the begi...

Breathing new life into cognitive science

In this article I take an unusual starting point from which to argue for a unified cognitive science, namely a position defined by what is sometimes called the ‘life-mind continuity thesis’. Accordingly, rather than taki...

Grand Illusion and Grand Presence. Introduction

Sense-making with a little help from my friends

The work of Ezequiel Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher has helped to transform the enactive approach from relative obscurity into a hotly debated contender for the future science of social cognition and cognitive science mor...

Phenomenology of Bodily Perception

I would like to set up te problem I want to address in terms of two of the different strands that we find in Merleau-Ponty’s thinking about the phenomenology of the body. One of these strands is profoundly insightful. Th...