Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

  PART ONE    The Enactive Approach

        ONE     Cognitive Science and Human Experience

        TWO    The Phenomenological Connection

     THREE    Autonomy and Emergence

       FOUR    The Structure of Behavior

   PART TWO    Life in Mind

         FIVE      Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living

           SIX      Life and Mind: The Philosophy of the Organism

      SEVEN     Laying Down a Path in Walking: Development and Evolution

PART THREE     Consciousness in Life

        EIGHT      Life beyond the Gap

          NINE      Sensorimotor Subjectivity

           TEN      Look Again: Consciousness and Mental Imagery

      ELEVEN     Temporality and the Living Present

     TWELVE      Primordial Dynamism: Emotion and Valence

   THIRTEEN     Empathy and Enculturation

APPENDIX A:    Husserl and Cognitive Science

APPENDIX B:    Emergence and the Problem of Downward Causation

Notes

References

Index