Distal engagement: intentions in perception

Brancazio, Nick; Segundo Ortin, Miguel

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Distal engagement: intentions in perception

dc.contributor.author	Brancazio, Nick
dc.contributor.author	Segundo Ortin, Miguel
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-14T09:28:10Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-14T09:28:10Z
dc.date.created	2020-02-13
dc.description	© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All right reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This document is the Submitted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Consciousness and Cognition. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102897	es
dc.description.abstract	Non-representational approaches to cognition have struggled to provide accounts of longterm planning that forgo the use of representations. An explanation comes easier for cognitivist accounts, which hold that we concoct and use contentful mental representations as guides to coordinate a series of actions towards an end state. One non-representational approach, ecologicalenactivism, has recently seen several proposals that account for “high-level” or “representationhungry” capacities, including long-term planning and action coordination. In this paper, we demonstrate the explanatory gap in these accounts that stems from avoiding the incorporation of long-term intentions, as they play an important role both in action coordination and perception on the ecological account. Using recent enactive accounts of language, we argue for a nonrepresentational conception of intentions, their formation, and their role in coordinating prereflective action. We provide an account for the coordination of our present actions towards a distant goal, a skill we call distal engagement. Rather than positing intentions as an actual cognitive entity in need of explanation, we argue that we take them up in this way as a practice due to linguistically scaffolded attitudes towards language use.	es
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dc.format.extent	19	es
dc.identifier.citation	Consciousness and Cognition 79 (2020) 1028
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102897
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 1053-8100
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1090-2376
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/148392
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation	Nick Brancazio’s research was supported by a UPA, IPTA, and Career Launch Scholarship from the University of Wollongong. Miguel Segundo Ortin’s contribution to this article was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project “Minds in Skilled Performance” (DP170102987).	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810019302582
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Intentions	es
dc.subject	Ecological-Enactivism	es
dc.subject	Perception	es
dc.subject	Enactivism	es
dc.subject	Ecological Psychology	es
dc.title	Distal engagement: intentions in perception	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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