Enactive Cognitive Science

Abstract

This opening chapter introduces the philosophical and paradigmatic context in which the research presented in this book has been generated. It forms the foundation for the description and development of the methods employed and developed (chapter 3) and their later application (just modelling: chapters 4-7; combined modelling and experimental work: chapters 8-11). The significance of the results of each of the models and experiments for the particular research question they address is discussed within the respective chapters. The paradigmatic and methodological implications of these studies, which are the unifying research theme for the present work, are identified and evaluated in chapter 12.