1st Edition

Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition Conceptual Analysis, Embodiment, and Situatedness

Edited By Manuel Heras-Escribano Copyright 2026
274 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

1. Analytic Philosophy and 4E Cognition: friends or foes?

Manuel Heras-Escribano

Part 1: The analytic tradition through the 4E perspective

2. Capturing the ordinary

Alva Noë

3. Ecological psychology as critical direct realism

Carl B. Sachs

4. Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature

Vicente Raja and Anthony Chemero

5. Ecological psychology and the behaviorist bogeyman

Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Inés Abalo-Rodríguez

6. Being a good gadfly: radical enactivism’s positively revisionary approach to cognitive science

Daniel D. Hutto

7. Neo-Pragmatism and the natural origins of content

Daniel Martínez Moreno and Manuel Heras-Escribano

8. Eliminativism is at the Heart of E-Cognition

Luis H. Favela

Part 2: From skills and habits to language and communication

9. Skillful coping in the metaverse: on the challenges of immersion

Marta Pérez Verdugo

10. The organismic turn. Teleosemantics after 4E

Xabier E. Barandiaran and Tiago Rama

11. Communication beyond Inferentialism and Individualism

Glenda Satne

12. Linguistic relativity and embodiment

Fernando Martínez-Manrique

Part 3: Ethical and political implications

13. Situated agency: a Wittgensteinian exploration

Annemarie Kalis

14. Recognition and the grounding of normativity

Laura Mojica

15. Embodied, embedded, enactive, extended… and exclusionary? Toward an inclusive E-Cognition for cognitive diversity

Víctor Fernández-Castro and Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo

16. Adaptive preferences and extended cognition

Gloria Andrada

Biography

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