Carving Humanity a New One: Enactive Remedies to Tallis’ Mishap with Nature
摘要
In Freedom: An Impossible Reality (2021), Raymond Tallis provides a compelling account of distinctively human capacities for action at an “epistemic distance” from nature, arguing these deliver a constrained capacity to act freely. In what he takes to be a corollary of both his humanist worldview and our “deflecting rather than merely inflecting” the course of physical events, Tallis claims these capacities are fundamentally discontinuous with all others in nature. I have previously (Rostowski 2022) sought to demonstrate that the enactive approach to cognitive science offers a framework for the study of cognitive agency that respects and even bolsters Tallis’ case for freedom. To these ends, I sketched out the framework’s potential to accommodate Tallis’ treatment of human agents as “am-bodied subjects”.