RECkoning with the stakes in overcoming representation-hungry problem domains

Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen*

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    Abstract

    The paper reviews the current state of play around non-representationalist attempts at
    countering Clark and Toribio’s (1994) representation-hunger thesis. It introduces a
    distinction between different approaches to Chemero’s (2009) Radical Embodied
    Cognition thesis in form of, on the one hand, those pushing a hard line and, on the
    other, those who are more relaxed about their anti-representationalist commitments. In
    terms of overcoming Clark and Toribio’s thesis, hardliners seek to avoid any
    mentioning of mental content in the activity they purport to explain. Yet, the paper
    argues, adopting a hardline complicates this endeavor considerably and unnecessarily.
    Those adopting a relaxed REC, however, are better off in that they have no problem in
    recognizing that some types of cognition are hybrid. By turning to Hutto and Myin’s
    Radical Enactivism as a prime example of a relaxed approach to the REC thesis, the
    paper points towards the lack of continuity of covariant information and informational
    content as the gap that would necessarily have to be closed in order for RECers to,
    once and for all, dismiss Clark and Toribio’s hypothesis that certain kinds of cognition
    are per definition off limits to anti-representationalism.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftActa Analytica
    Vol/bind36
    Udgave nummer4
    Sider (fra-til)517–532
    ISSN0353-5150
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 23. apr. 2021

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