Making sense of sense-making: Reflections on enactive and extended mind theories

Topoi

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-30

  Thompson, Evan ^a   Stapleton, Mog ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Embodiment; Emotion; Enaction; Extended mind; Incorporation; Sense making

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449093922     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-008-9043-2     Document Type: Article

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