Expanding the search-space for a science of perceptual awareness

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Published: Jul 28, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v3.n2.5226
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embodied cognition, enactive approach, perceptual awareness, neural correlates of consciousness, Alva Noë

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Alfonso Nicolás Venturelli
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

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I work out a way of interpreting the contribution of the conglomeration of research programs, methodological stands and philosophical speculations known as the embodied approach to cognition. To do this, I focus on one such proposal: the so-called enactive approach to perception, especially as advanced by philosopher Alva Noë and with a particular interest in the problem of perceptual awareness and the related dispute on the neural correlates of consciousness. I argue that the enactive approach should be best understood as providing a conceptual-cum-methodological framework to set better investigations for the study of perception and perceptual awareness.

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Expanding the search-space for a science of perceptual awareness. (2011). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 3(2), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v3.n2.5226
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Alfonso Nicolás Venturelli, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Profesor Asistente de la asignatura Problemas Epistemológicos de la Psicología, Facultad de Psicología, y Profesor Adscripto en las asignaturas Filosofía de la Ciencia e Historia de la Ciencia I, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Córdoba, Argentina. Es Licenciado y doctorando en Filosofía por la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, UNC.

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Expanding the search-space for a science of perceptual awareness. (2011). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 3(2), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v3.n2.5226

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