Enacting is enough: Commentary on Dave Ward's 'The agent in magenta'

Authors

Erik Myin, University of Antwerp
Daniel D. Hutto, University of Hertfordshire

RIS ID

80676

Publication Details

Myin, E. and Hutto, D. D. (2010). Enacting is enough: Commentary on Dave Ward's 'The agent in magenta' . Psyche, 15 (1), 24-30.

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Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Abstract

In the action-space account of color, an emphasis is laid on implicit knowledge when it comes to experience, and explanatory ambitions are expressed. If the knowledge claims are interpreted in a strong way, the action-space account becomes a form of conservative enactivism, which is a kind of cognitivism. Only if the knowledge claims are weakly interpreted, the action space-account can be seen as a distinctive form of enactivism, but then all reductive explanatory ambitions must be abandoned.