Browsing University of Hertfordshire by Author "Hutto, Daniel"

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    • The brain as part of an enactive system 

      Gallagher, Shaun; Hutto, Daniel; Slaby, Jan; Cole, Jonathan (2013-08)
      The notion of an enactive system requires thinking about the brain in a way that is different from the standard computationalrepresentational models. In evolutionary terms, the brain does what it does and is the way that ...

    • Elementary mind minding, enactivist-style 

      Hutto, Daniel (MIT Press, 2011)
      The core claim of this paper is that mind minding of the sort required for the simplest and most pervasive forms of joint attentional activity is best understood and explained in non-representational, enactivist terms. In ...

    • Enactivism, From A Wittgensteinian Point of View 

      Hutto, Daniel (2013-07)
      Enactivists seek to revolutionize the new sciences of the mind. In doing so, they promote adopting a thoroughly anti-intellectualist starting point, one that sees mentality as rooted in engaged, embodied activity as opposed ...

    • Exposing the background : Deep and local 

      Hutto, Daniel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
      Humans engage with the world and one another in sophisticated ways that (arguably) creatures lacking language cannot. Language (again, arguably) enables us to communicate meaningfully, to form contentful attitudes and ...

    • Fictionalism about folk psychology 

      Hutto, Daniel (2013-10)
      This paper argues that fictionalism about folk psychology, FaF, is not a successful way of dealing with eliminativist threats and other concerns about the status of everyday mental states. Its moral? Friends of folk ...

    • Radicalizing enactivism : Basic minds without content 

      Hutto, Daniel; Myin, Erik (MIT Press, 2013)
      The vast sea of what humans do and experience is best understood by appeal to nothing more than dynamically unfolding, situated embodied interactions and engagements with worldly offerings. Basic mentality is neither ...

    • Social cognition : Mindreading and its alternatives 

      Hutto, Daniel; Herschbach, Mitchell; Southgate, Victoria (Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2011)

    • ToM Rules, but it is not OK! 

      Hutto, Daniel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

    • Truly enactive emotion 

      Hutto, Daniel (2012-04)
      Any adequate account of emotion must accommodate the fact that emotions, even those of the most basic kind, exhibit intentionality as well as phenomenality. This article argues that a good place to start in providing such ...

    • Understanding reasons without reenactment : Comment on Stueber 

      Hutto, Daniel (2012)
      This comment on Stueber’s article clarifies the nature of the core disagreement between his approach to understanding reasons and mine. The purely philosophical nature of the dispute is highlighted. It is argued that ...