The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions.
History and philosophy of the life sciences December 2, 2021 Laura Mojica 11 citations
Autopoietic enactivism grounds normativity in the self-maintenance of living agents, but this view struggles to explain how agents can act on non-individual norms or form genuinely social interactions. The author proposes an alternative: distinguish between an agent's own normative point of view and external normative criteria. A normative interaction arises from an individual's perspective, as defined by autopoietic enactivism, but is evaluated by a self-maintaining system that may be separate from the agent. This separation resolves the challenge and helps explain the situated, relational character of agency.