Merleau-Ponty, Embodied Cognition and Enactivism
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Embodied cognition
enactivism
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forthcoming
Merleau-Ponty
phenomenology
philosophy of science
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- ISBN 9781399539852
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological work on embodiment and perception, Jack Reynolds develops a novel account of many of the recent debates in enactivism and embodied cognition, engaging specifically with the epistemological and metaphysical aspects of these views.
Reynolds sets out a Merleau-Ponty inspired view of enactive cognition, arguing that it presents the best overall explanation of both phenomenological considerations and a range of scientific evidence concerning life and mind. He defends the view against a variety of alternative positions across the putative analytic-continental divide, including predictive processing, illusionism and computationalism.
Jack Reynolds is Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia, a Member of the ARC College of Experts, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). His research has been supported by Australian Research Council grants and an NHMRC Ideas grant (2025-27) on Tourette's Syndrome. He is the author of several other books, including Phenomenology, Naturalism, and Science: A Hybrid and Heretical Proposal (2018) and Analytic versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (2010, with James Chase). His recent work has become more interdisciplinary in nature, while continuing to address philosophical and empirical issues concerning embodiment, temporality, and social cognition, including their variability.
