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This volume represents the first comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to exploring the conceptual and methodological intersections and tensions between analytic philosophy and the embodied–embedded approach to cognitive science, commonly referred to as ""e-cognition."" Following an introductory chapter by the editor, which situates the discussion within its broader philosophical landscape, the contributors address a range of themes that traverse both analytic philosophy and 4E-cognition. These include skillful coping, habit formation, the nature and status of representations, consciousness, communication, and the social and political implications of embodied and situated approaches. The volume also examines how various theoretical traditions—such as ecological psychology, teleosemantics, enactivism, the Pittsburgh School, and intentional realism—engage with and apply these ideas. Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition: Conceptual Analysis, Embodiment, and Situatedness will appeal to advanced students and scholars in analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology, as well as those working in cognitive science with an interest in embodied and situated cognition.

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Author:   Manuel Heras-Escribano (University of Granada, Spain)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9781041092896

ISBN 10:   104109289
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition: friends or foes? Part 1: The analytic tradition through the 4E perspective 2. Capturing the ordinary 3. Ecological Psychology as Critical Direct Realism 4. Ecological Psychology and the Mirror of Nature 5. Ecological psychology and the behaviorist bogeyman 6. Being a Good Gadfly: Radical Enactivism’s Positively Revisionary Approach to Cognitive Science 7. Neo-Pragmatism and the natural origins of content 8. Eliminativism is at the Heart of E-Cognition Part 2: From skills and habits to language and communication 9. Skillful coping in the metaverse: on the challenges of immersion 10. The Organismic Turn. Teleosemantics after 4E 11. Communication as a root form of shared intentional activity 12. Linguistic relativity and embodiment Part 3: Ethical and political implications 13. Situated agency: A Wittgensteinian exploration 14. Recognition and the grounding of normativity 15. Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended… and Exclusionary? Toward an Inclusive E-Cognition for Cognitive Diversity 16. Adaptive preferences and enculturated-extended cognition

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Manuel Heras-Escribano is Profesor Titular at the University of Granada, Spain.

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