Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

Despite their popularity, dual process accounts of human reasoning and decision-making
have come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Cognitive scientists and philosophers …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

A rising epistemological paradigm in the cognitive sciences—embodied cognition—has
been stimulating innovative approaches, among educational researchers, to the design and …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Psychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship
between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders …

The Philosophy of Affordances Page 1 The Philosophy of Affordances Manuel Heras-Escribano
New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Page 2 New Directions in Philosophy …

Just over 25 years ago, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch published
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (TEM). An ambitious …

The aim of this paper is twofold:(1) to assess whether the construct of neural representations
plays an explanatory role under the variational free-energy principle and its corollary …

A classic in its field, this comprehensive book introduces the core history of phenomenology
and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive …