1st Edition

The Ontology of Ecological Cognition

By Konrad Werner Copyright 2025
284 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on cognition. The book’s main argument is that ecological/embodied cognition is embedded in various... Read more

1. Minds and Places: The Need for a Locative Ontology of Cognition

2. The Locative Commitments of Cartesian Cognitive Science

3. The Ecology of Representational Systems

4. Introducing 4E and its Locative Commitments

5. The Cognitive Niche: A Primer

6. The Basic Ontology of the Bounded Locus

7. The Basic Ontology of Niche Construction

8. Prospects for Ecological Internalism

Biography

Konrad Werner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is the author of The Embodied Philosopher: Living in Pursuit of Boundary Questions (2022) and numerous papers published in journals such as Synthese, Topoi, Erkenntnis, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Constructivist Foundations, among others.

“This book usefully approaches ecological/embodied cognition as a project rooted in several philosophical traditions and is a fresh and significant proposal in the area of the ontology of cognition.”  

Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy