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    "title": "Please Explain: Radical Enactivism and its Explanatory Debt",
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    "abstract": "Radical Enactivism is a position in the philosophy of\ncognitive science that aims to displace representationalism,\nthe dominant position in cognitive science for the last 50-60\nyears. To accomplish this aim, radical enactivism must\nprovide an alternative explanation of cognition. Radical\nenactivism offers two alternative explanations of cognition.\nThe first I call the dynamical explanation and the second I call\nthe historical explanation. The mechanists have given us\nreasons for doubting that the first alternative makes for a good\nexplanation. The historical explanation does not hit the right\nexplanatory target without the introduction of a proximate\nmechanism, but the proximate mechanisms suggested by\nradical enactivism are associationist mechanisms, the\nlimitations of which led to the initial widespread endorsement\nof representationalism. Therefore, radical enactivism cannot\ndisplace representationalism in cognitive science.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "radical enactivism"
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        {
            "word": "Representation"
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            "word": "dynamical\nexplanation"
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        {
            "word": "computationalism"
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        {
            "word": "explanation"
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    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86s219rv",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Lachlan",
            "middle_name": "Douglas",
            "last_name": "Walmsley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Australian National University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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