Ed Baggs
@edbaggs.bsky.social
University of Southern Denmark
Cognitive science, perception, culture
Cognitive science, perception, culture
Jonathan Bowen re-examines Köhler's classic studies of insight problem solving in apes. He suggests that while the Gestalt psychologists held that insight requires mental re-organization, it's possible that the re-organization really occurs at the ecological scale
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Toward a Theory of Direct Insight - Topoi
While James Gibson is often seen as rebelling against the Gestalt psychologists of the Berlin School, he shared their “phenomenological attitude”: the commitment to taking a rigorous description of di...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Jonathan Bowen re-examines Köhler's classic studies of insight problem solving in apes. He suggests that while the Gestalt psychologists held that insight requires mental re-organization, it's possible that the re-organization really occurs at the ecological scale
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Christian Kronsted asks how embodied cognition theory can inform education. He argues that an understanding of affordances can inform classroom activities that promote "playful complexity"
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doi.org/10.1007/s112...
A Remedy against Cognitive Load: Creating Playful Complexity in Activity and Inquiry-Based Learning - Topoi
Critical thinking and inquiry are considered cornerstones of 21st-century skills that must be taught via our education systems. Two growing approaches to teaching these skills are activity-based learn...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Christian Kronsted asks how embodied cognition theory can inform education. He argues that an understanding of affordances can inform classroom activities that promote "playful complexity"
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Marta Benenti discusses the potential role of affordances in aesthetic experiences, e.g. joy induced by listening to music. She suggests affordances can be "opportunities for emotional regulation" of the body
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Aesthetic Experience in Light of Affective Affordances - Topoi
Among the most pressing questions in aesthetics is that concerning the role of emotions in aesthetic experiences. In this article I try to provide an answer to this question by exploiting the explanat...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Marta Benenti discusses the potential role of affordances in aesthetic experiences, e.g. joy induced by listening to music. She suggests affordances can be "opportunities for emotional regulation" of the body
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Radical enactivists distinguish between basic minds and content-involving minds. Manuel Heras-Escribano challenges this two-storey story about minds. He thinks its possible to treat these two kinds of minds as belonging on a single continuum
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doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Radical Enactivism and the Neo-Pragmatist Problem of the Origins of Content: A Radical Embodied Intervention - Topoi
Neo-pragmatists claim that individual intelligence derives from socio-normative practices and not the other way round. However, this leads to the neo-pragmatist problem of the origins of content, whic...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Radical enactivists distinguish between basic minds and content-involving minds. Manuel Heras-Escribano challenges this two-storey story about minds. He thinks its possible to treat these two kinds of minds as belonging on a single continuum
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
@zachpeck.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social argue that radical embodiment has implications for ethics - if embodiment erodes the boundaries of the self, does it also erode the boundaries of moral agency? Happily, feminist philosophers have thought carefully about this
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doi.org/10.1007/s112...
A Radical Embodied Account of Responsibility - Topoi
In this paper, we argue that radical embodied cognitive science implies an ethics of responsibility that prioritizes what we refer to as taking collective responsibility. By taking responsibility, we ...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@zachpeck.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social argue that radical embodiment has implications for ethics - if embodiment erodes the boundaries of the self, does it also erode the boundaries of moral agency? Happily, feminist philosophers have thought carefully about this
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Andrea Gambarotto and Thomas van Es argue that in order to adequately incorporate social processes into its theory, enactivism needs to become more dialectical, and more Hegelian
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doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back - Topoi
This paper examines the relation between embodiment and sociality within the enactive approach, highlighting the continuity between biological autonomy and social normativity. The central claim is tha...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Andrea Gambarotto and Thomas van Es argue that in order to adequately incorporate social processes into its theory, enactivism needs to become more dialectical, and more Hegelian
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doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Luis Favela discusses an important problem for radical embodiment - how to conduct empirical science while insisting that the system under study is non-decomposable. He thinks emergence provides the answer doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Emergence Makes the Science of Radical Embodiment Effective - Topoi
Radical embodiment faces two interrelated challenges. The first concerns what it offers metaphysically and epistemically as a comprehensive investigative framework that approaches it criticizes do not...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Luis Favela discusses an important problem for radical embodiment - how to conduct empirical science while insisting that the system under study is non-decomposable. He thinks emergence provides the answer doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Harry Heft argues that radical embodiment can benefit from adopting Mead's social pragmatism, which is, he thinks, compatible with Bourdieu's concept of habitus and with Barker's behavior settings theory
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Client Challenge
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October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Harry Heft argues that radical embodiment can benefit from adopting Mead's social pragmatism, which is, he thinks, compatible with Bourdieu's concept of habitus and with Barker's behavior settings theory
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Luke Kersten raises an old distinction from Andy Clark between two views of embodied cognition: one view gives the body a privileged role in explanations of mind, the other holds that the body is just one resource among many. Can mechanistic explanation resolve the tension?
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doi.org/10.1007/s112...
A ‘Pressing’ Problem for Embodied Cognition: A Mechanistic Proposal - Topoi
Embodied cognition maintains that there is a deep and significant relationship between the body and mind. But what exactly is the nature of this relation? According to body-centrism, the relation is o...
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September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Luke Kersten raises an old distinction from Andy Clark between two views of embodied cognition: one view gives the body a privileged role in explanations of mind, the other holds that the body is just one resource among many. Can mechanistic explanation resolve the tension?
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
No, the deadline for proposals was in July
September 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
No, the deadline for proposals was in July
Radical embodied cognitive science does not have a settled view on what mental states are. Alexander Hölken argues for understanding mental states as components of larger scale coordinative structures doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Mental Coordinative Structures: Situating Mental States within Radically Embodied Approaches to Cognition - Topoi
Since its inception more than 15 years ago, Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (RECS) has successfully challenged several of the axioms and research paradigms shared by semantic-representationalist ap...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Radical embodied cognitive science does not have a settled view on what mental states are. Alexander Hölken argues for understanding mental states as components of larger scale coordinative structures doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Marta Pérez-Verdugo and @xabibaran.bsky.social discuss whether Piagetian sensorimotor schemes can be extended beyond the body into artifacts. They argue that conventional use of a teapot is shaped as much by the teapot itself as by our bodily action schemes
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The Equilibration of Technical Objects: Uncovering Normative Layers of Sensorimotor Engagement - Topoi
In this paper we argue that radically embodied approaches to cognition can be expanded to show that: (a) our sensorimotor engagements with technical objects can be normatively shaped in a direct manne...
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August 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Marta Pérez-Verdugo and @xabibaran.bsky.social discuss whether Piagetian sensorimotor schemes can be extended beyond the body into artifacts. They argue that conventional use of a teapot is shaped as much by the teapot itself as by our bodily action schemes
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@melinagastelum.bsky.social proposes the Dynamic Affordance Trajectory Framework, which aims to explain how affordances operate across different time scales: action control, learning, and culture
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Trajectories of Being: How Affordances Shape Identity and Behavior across Time - Topoi
This paper introduces the Dynamic Affordance Trajectory Framework (DATF), a multiscalar approach to understanding human behavior and identity formation. It integrates short-term perception-action cycl...
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August 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
@melinagastelum.bsky.social proposes the Dynamic Affordance Trajectory Framework, which aims to explain how affordances operate across different time scales: action control, learning, and culture
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...