Lektorsky on dialectical materialism and enactivism
Philosophy of Science and Technology January 1, 2022 T. Rockmore 1 citation
This article traces V.A. Lektorsky's evolving philosophical position on the debate between constructivism and realism, from his early dialectical materialism to a post-Marxist variant of realism. Lektorsky's later realism draws on cognitive science, rejecting the computational model of cognition in favor of enactivism, which emphasizes the knowing subject's physical body as actively embedded in and interacting with its environment. The analysis reconstructs two stages in Lektorsky's work on epistemological realism, examines the arguments for his conception of "constructive" or "activity" realism, and evaluates their merits within the broader European philosophical tradition.