Enactivism and the Hegelian Stance on Intrinsic Purposiveness
Andrea Gambarotto, Matteo Mossio
Abstract
Abstract We characterize Hegel’s stance on biological purposiveness as consisting in a twofold move, which conceives organisms as intrinsically purposive natural systems and focuses on their behavioral and cognitive abilities. We submit that a Hegelian stance is at play in enactivism, the branch of the contemporary theory of biological autonomy devoted to the study of cognition and the mind. What is at stake in the Hegelian stance is the elaboration of a naturalized, although non-reductive, understanding of natural purposiveness.
Topics & Concepts
HegelianismEnactivismPhilosophy of mindEpistemologyAutonomyNatural (archaeology)PhilosophyInternalism and externalismIntrospectionPsychologyCognitive scienceAutopoiesisMetaphysicsPolitical scienceArchaeologyHistoryLawEmbodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy and History of ScienceAction Observation and Synchronization