Enactive cognition

German philosopher (1889–1976)

French phenomenological philosopher

American psychologist and scholar

open question in philosophy of how abstract minds interact with physical bodies

American linguist

Intentionality is the mental ability to refer to or represent something. Sometimes regarded as the mark of the mental, it is found in mental states like perceptions, beliefs or desires. For example, the perception of a tree has intentionality because it represents a tree to the perceiver. A central issue for theories of intentionality has been the problem of intentional inexistence: to determine the ontological status of the entities which are the objects of intentional states.

comprehensive system of ideas about learning in acquisition of human intelligence

thumb|3D representation of a living cell during the process of mitosis, example of an autopoietic system

Baltic German biologist, zoologist, and philosopher (1864-1944)

information processing about social situations

sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated, and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others; states that people work together to actively construct artifacts

American philosopher (1929–2017)

interdisciplinary theory

model of the cognitive processes of humans and other beings with minds

field of study around the behaviour of humans in the natural environment

Enactivism is a position in cognitive science that argues that cognition arises through interaction between an acting organism and its environment. It claims that the environment of an organism is brought about, or enacted, by the active exercise of that organism's sensorimotor processes. "The key point, then, is that the species brings forth and specifies its own domain of problems ...this domain does not exist "out there" in an environment that acts as a landing pad for organisms that somehow drop or parachute into the world. Instead, living beings and their environments stand in relation to

theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts

psychologic theory

hypothesis of debated testability, curriculum: active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes

social-psychological concept