Ecological psychology, radical enactivism and behavior: an evolutionary perspective

Dickins, Thomas E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5788-0948 (2020) Ecological psychology, radical enactivism and behavior: an evolutionary perspective. Behavior and Philosophy . ISSN 1053-8348 [Article] (Accepted/In press)

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Abstract

Ecological psychology and enactivism are close relatives in that they share an interest in positioning the behaving organism as an active agent and in interpreting this with reference to ecological and evolutionary ideas. But they also differ in their uses of biology and the concept of information. I review these uses, relate them to ideas in behaviorism, and conclude that a version of enactivism, championed by Daniel Hutto and colleagues, is the more viable hypothesis. I extend this radical enactivist effort into evolutionary enactivism as an exercise in parsimonious theory building that aims to avoid essentialism.

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