séminaire Philbio

Nous aurons le plaisir d'écouter : Nathalie Gontier (chercheuse indépendante)

Titre :  “How 7E cognition requires a combined reticulate and eco-evo-devo approach ? “
Résumé : 4E cognition theory defines cognition as embodied in the organism, embedded in a developmental and sociocultural setting, enacted by agential individuals, and extended in material artifacts. This view of cognition grew from phenomenological, pragmatic, hermeneutic, and systems-theoretical theories on the mind-body-environment relationship in general and the nature of human action in particular. 4E cognition does not adopt an explicit evolutionary outlook, and it has actively opposed universal Darwinian, sociobiological, and evolutionary psychological accounts of the human mind for their tendency to try to reduce cognition to genetics and population genetic research. By applying evolutionary epistemology, I will show how eco-evo-devo and reticulate evolution theories offer alternative perspectives on the evolutionary foundations of cognition and argue that cognition can be understood as evolving, extra-genetically, by ensembles of individuals.