激进生成论及其反表征主义革命

摘要

Enactivism is a new approach in embodied cognition science.It takes an attitude of anti-representationalism and hold that the task of our mind is not the processing of mental representations and abstract symbols,instead mind's primary work is to make ac-tions to adjust itself to its environment.Cognitive processes are simply not in the business of accessing the world in order to build accu-rate pictures of it.Cognition is an embodied action and deeply rooted in the body's interactions with the world.Radical enactivism is trying to radicalize the proposals of enactivism and attempt to improve and unify anti-representationalis approaches to mind and cogni-tion.However,radical enactivism takes issue with autopoietic and sensorimotor enactivism which incur implicit commitment to represen-tationalist doctrines they aim to supplant.The arguments of radical enactivism are being seviouly criticized by both moderate enactivisms and really radical enactivism.%生成论是当代具身认知科学中的一个新取向.它反对传统认知科学中的表征主义观点,主张心智并非认识者对环境信息的表征和加工,而是行动的制造者,是特定身体构造和身体能力的行动者与环境的互动与耦合过程.激进生成论认为自创生的生成论和感觉运动的生成论在反对表征主义方面过于"温和".因此,它主张"激进化"生成论,强调基本心智就是一种反应形式,不包含任何内容性心理表征.因此,它要掀起一场反表征主义"革命".这一激进主张受到来自左右两方面的批评.