Philosophy of Mind Reading Group

In the Philosophy of Mind Reading Group (FLFI.04.052, led by Bruno Mölder and Jimena Clavel), we will study a book by Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin, “Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content” (MIT Press 2017) that is a follow-up to their previous volume “Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content” (2013).

Hutto and Myin presented a radical version of enactivism according to which basic mental processes are not contentful. This kind of anti-representationalism is one of the most debated issues in the current philosophy of mind. The new book discusses how basic cognition without content interacts with the type of cognition that involves content.

The first meeting will be (online) on March 4, from 12.15 to 13.45.

The reading group also prepares the students for the upcoming Frege lectures by Daniel Hutto that, COVID-19 permitting, will be held in Tartu in 2021.

The course is supported by the University of Tartu ASTRA Project PER ASPERA, financed by the European Regional Development Fund.