scholarly journals Enactive Ethics: Difference Becoming Participation

Topoi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo ◽  
Hanne De Jaegher
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Transcendental Arguments ◽  
Know How ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Enactive Cognitive Science ◽  
Dichotomous Thinking

AbstractEnactive cognitive science combines questions in epistemology, ontology, and ethics by conceiving of bodies as open-ended and mutually transforming through activity. While enaction is not a theory of ethics, it can contribute to its foundations. We present a schematization of enactive ideas that underlie traditional distinctions between Being, Knowing, and Doing. Ethics in this scheme begins in the relation between knowing and becoming. Critical of dichotomous thinking, we approach the questions of alterity and ethical reality. Alterity is relevant to the enactive approach, but not in the radical sense of transcendental arguments. We propose difference, instead, as a more generative concept. Following Simondon, we see norms and values manifest in webs of past and future acts together with their potentialities for becoming. We propose a transindividual concept of moral attunement that includes ethical know-how and consciousness raising. Through generative difference and attunement to configurations of becoming, enaction underpins an ethics of participation linking virtue ethics and ethics of care.

scholarly journals Letting language be: reflections on enactive method

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Elena Clare Cuffari ◽  
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo ◽  
Hanne De Jaegher
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
High Light ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Know How ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Embodied Cognitive Science ◽  
The Difference

Prompted by our commentators, we take this response as an opportunity to clarify the premises, attitudes, and methods of our enactive approach to human languaging. We high-light the need to recognize that any investigation, particularly one into language, is always a concretely situated and self-grounding activity; our attitude as researchers is one of knowing as engagement with our subject matter. Our task, formulating the missing categories that can bridge embodied cognitive science with language research, requires avoiding premature abstractions and clarifying the multiple circularities at play. Our chosen method is dialectical, which has prompted several interesting observations that we respond to, particularly with respect to what this method means for enactive epistemology and ontology. We also clarify the important question of how best to conceive of the variety of social skills we progressively identify with our method and are at play in human languaging. Are these skills socially constituted or just socially learned? The difference, again, leads to a clarification that acts, skills, actors, and interactions are to be conceived as co-emerging categories. We illustrate some of these points with a discussion of an example of aspects of the model at play in a study of gift giving in China.Keywords: Enactive epistemology, Enactive ontology, Dialectics, languaging, Shared know-how.

Overview of Psychiatric Ethics II: Virtue Ethics and the Ethics of Care

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Robertson ◽  
Garry Walter
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care

Characterizing Autopoiesis in the Game of Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall D. Beer
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Automaton ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Spatiotemporal Patterns ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Game Of Life ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
Conway’S Game Of Life ◽  
Over Time

Maturana and Varela's concept of autopoiesis defines the essential organization of living systems and serves as a foundation for their biology of cognition and the enactive approach to cognitive science. As an initial step toward a more formal analysis of autopoiesis, this article investigates its application to the compact, recurrent spatiotemporal patterns that arise in Conway's Game-of-Life cellular automaton. In particular, we demonstrate how such entities can be formulated as self-constructing networks of interdependent processes that maintain their own boundaries. We then characterize the specific organizations of several such entities, suggest a way to simplify the descriptions of these organizations, and briefly consider the transformation of such organizations over time.

Nested Learning Systems for the Thinking Curriculum

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Resnick
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Know How ◽  
American Students ◽  
Major Reform ◽  
American Schools

The 21st century will require knowledge and skill well beyond the basic levels of reading and arithmetic that American schools know how to produce more or less reliably. Delivering a “thinking curriculum” to all American students requires major reform in the ways schools and districts organize their work. The transformation of the institution of schooling that will be needed to make this aspirational goal a real achievement is daunting. This article examines cognitive science, systems engineering, and social science concepts that are pointing toward a new foundation for policies and practices that may radically improve the proportion of students who can achieve true 21st-century skills.

Foundations of enactive cognitive science

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-141
Author(s):  
Etienne B Roesch ◽  
Slawomir Nasuto ◽  
J Mark Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Enactive Cognitive Science

Somaesthetics in Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-253
Author(s):  
Richard Shusterman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
Philosophical Idea ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

After defining somaesthetics and explaining the terms of its definition, this paper distinguishes between somaesthetics and other somatic disciplines concerned with improving the quality of our movement. The paper then outlines the roots of somaesthetics in pragmatist philosophy and the philosophical idea of the holistic art of living that combines cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical concerns. The next section discusses the three branches of somaesthetics and its three dimensions while also mapping their interrelations. After a section that contextualizes somaesthetics in relation to affect theory and cognitive science and that briefly notes some of its many interdisciplinary applications, the paper concludes with a discussion of the somaesthetic approach to the issue of norms and values in somatic experience, inquiry, and practice.

scholarly journals A Rapprochement between Feminist Ethics of Care and Contemporary Theology

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Helenka Mannering
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Moral Philosophies ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Liberal Individualism

Ethics of care is a relatively new approach to morality, first developed as a feminist ethical theory in the 1980s by Carol Gilligan, Sara Ruddick, and Nel Noddings. It is based on the experience and responsibility of providing care and is distinct from other popular moral philosophies including Kantian moral theory, utilitarianism, or virtue ethics, although it has some similarities to virtue ethics. Founded on a relational ontology, it offers a deeply incisive critique of liberal individualism through ethical reflection. It is also committed to a particularism which recognises the importance of addressing moral problems in the context of lived experience. In this article, after an analysis of the foundational perspectives of care ethics, it will be contended that its central tenets tie in with contemporary approaches in theology, particularly those expressed in the writings of St John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Furthermore, it will be suggested that the anthropological and moral insights of these theologians can offer the ethics of care a deeper ontological and epistemological grounding, hence strengthening its viability and existential appeal.

Relation, Virtue, and Relational Virtue: Three Concepts of Caring

Hypatia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirong Luo
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
Agent Based

This essay breaks new ground in defending the view that contemporary care-based ethics and early Confucian ethics share some important common ground. Luo also introduces the notion of relational virtue in an attempt to bridge a conceptual gap between relational caring ethics and agent-based virtue ethics, and to make the connections between the ethics of care and Confucian ethics philosophically clearer and more defensible.

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