{"pk":27226,"title":"Resolving Two Tensions in 4E Cognition Using Wide Computationalism","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recently, some authors have begun to raise questions about thepotential unity of 4E (enactive, embedded, embodied, extended)cognition as a distinct research programme within cognitivescience. Two tensions, in particular, have been raised: (i) thatthe body-centric claims embodied cognition militate against thedistributed tendencies of extended cognition and (ii) that thebody/environment distinction emphasized by enactivism standsin tension with the world-spanning claims of extendedcognition. The goal of this paper is to resolve tensions (i) and(ii). The proposal is that a form of ‘wide computationalism’ canbe used to reconcile the two tensions and, in so doing, articulatea common theoretical core for 4E cognition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"4E cognition"},{"word":"wide computationalism"},{"word":"body-centrism"},{"word":"extended functionalism"},{"word":"autopoietic theory"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jf6613f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Luke","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kersten","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Joe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dewhurst","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"George","middle_name":"","last_name":"Deane","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27226/galley/16862/download/"}]}