Reflective interventions: Enactivism and phenomenology on ways of bringing the body into intellectual engagement.
Phenomenol Cogn Sci May 3, 2020 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1007/s11097-020-09673-3 via PubMed Central
Summary
The article argues that intellectual engagement can be enhanced by bringing the body into reflective awareness through specific interventions. Drawing on enactivism and phenomenology, it describes how practices like mindfulness and somatic attention can shift a person's relationship with their own bodily experience, thereby altering cognition and understanding. The work presents a theoretical account of how such reflective bodily interventions function, rather than reporting empirical findings.
Study at a glance
| Design | theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Key finding | Reflective bodily interventions, grounded in enactivist and phenomenological frameworks, can transform intellectual engagement by altering the subject's relation to their own embodied experience. |
Abstract
Reflective interventions: Enactivism and phenomenology on ways of bringing the body into intellectual engagement.