Mindshaping and the embodiment of rationality

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2025

Authors

Petracca, Enrico (Author) Other; Grayot, James D. (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: The Routledge handbook of mindshaping

ISBN: 9781032639192

Electronic ISBN: 9781032639239

Publisher: Routledge e Taylor & Francis

Other information

Abstract (EN): Our chapter addresses two overlapping questions related to the following prompt: How does mindshaping relate to and support the embodiment of rationality? This prompt can be addressed from complementary perspectives: (i) To what extent does mindshaping play a role in the embodiment of rationality? (ii) To what extent does the embodiment of rationality play a role in mindshaping? In this chapter, we survey and further explore how the philosophical, cognitive scientific, and economic studies of embodied rationality (and other embedded, extended, and enactive forms of cognition—known as 4E cognition) can provide in-roads toward addressing the above questions. Our strategy, in particular, is to explore how the integration of mindshaping with the embodiment of rationality may take different routes depending on the degree of retention/relaxation of mental representations as an explanatory construct. We introduce four increasingly ‘radical’ concepts of embodied rationality—embodied bounded rationality, body/somatic rationality, extended rationality, and radical embodied rationality—and discuss their potential integration with mindshaping.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 13