The intersubjective turn
The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition October 9, 2018 Hanne De Jaegher 17 citations
An enactive account of intersubjectivity should meet five criteria: it must address both social interaction and subjective experience in its full bodily, existential, and sociocultural complexity; it should integrate physiological, neural, interactional, linguistic, and societal levels of explanation using cross-disciplinary concepts and methods; it ought to encourage practical applications and dialogue with teachers and therapists; it must recognize its own underlying values to foster critical awareness of its influence on and by societal institutions and norms; and, because it concerns how people understand and deal with each other, it should engage with ethical questions. The paper then evaluates current enactive intersubjectivity research against these criteria.