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The strong program in embodied cognitive science

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dc.contributor.authorSanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.departmentFilosofía
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-23T11:50:48Z
dc.date.available2026-02-23T11:50:48Z
dc.date.copyright© The Author(s) 2022
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractA popular trend in the sciences of the mind is to understand cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, ecological, and so on. While some of the work under the label of “embodied cognition” takes for granted key commitments of traditional cognitive science, other projects coincide in treating embodiment as the starting point for an entirely different way of investigating all of cognition. Focusing on the latter, this paper discusses how embodied cognitive science can be made more reflexive and more sensitive to the implications that our views of cognition have for how we understand scientific practice, including our own theorizing about cognition. Inspired by the “strong programme” in the sociology of scientific knowledge, I explore the prospect of an analogously “strong” program in embodied cognitive science. I first draw from Dewey’s transactional notion of “situation” to identify a broad sense in which embodied cognitive science takes cognition, as an embodied phenomenon, to be situated. I then sketch a perspective I call situated reflexivity, which extends the Deweyan analysis to understand scientific practice in the same terms, and thereby illustrates what research in line with a strong program in embodied cognitive science can look like. This move, I propose, has the potential of setting up a new inquiry situation that makes more salient the embodiment of scientific practice and that, through this, can help organize our own embodied cognitive activities as we try to make sense of scientific work, including our own.
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dc.identifier.citationSanches de Oliveira, G. (2023) The Strong Program in Embodied Cognitive Science. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s11097-022-09806-w
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09806-w
dc.identifier.eissn1572-8676
dc.identifier.issn1568-7759
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/210561
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relationOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-022-09806-w
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEmbodiment
dc.subjectSituation
dc.subjectReflexivity
dc.subjectScientific practice
dc.subjectEmbodied cognitive science
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.title The strong program in embodied cognitive science
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