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Understanding Others -An Enactive Approach-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2024, (45), pp.171~195
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.007
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 25, 2024
  • Accepted : June 26, 2024
  • Published : June 30, 2024

Hye-yoon Chung 1

1한국예술종합학교

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ABSTRACT

This article examines how a long-standing question in the realm of philosophy of mind—how do we know the minds of others—is being reframed and revisited today. The traditional answers to this question have been Theory Theory (TT) and Simulation Theory (ST) of mindreading. This article critiques these traditional theories and proposes two alternative positions: the perspective of direct social perception (DSP) and enactivism. The DSP view and enactivism both challenge the fundamental assumptions of TT and ST, which equate another person’s mind with an internal state of the brain and consider it unobservable. However, the two positions diverge in their focus. DSP proponents explore the possibility of direct perception of other people’s minds, whereas enactivists emphasize the relational process by which participatory sense-making is generated through social interaction. In contrast to the DSP view, which still suffers from the limitations of TT and ST in that it approaches social cognition at the level of individual cognitive capacities, enactivism views social cognition as a social interaction rather than an individual’s cognitive capacities. The significance of enactivism lies in the fact that it theorizes the importance of social interaction in social cognition, bringing a key characteristic of social cognition into the focus of discussion that has not been given due credit.

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