Enacting Democracy

Enacting is Enough

In the action-space account of color, an emphasis is laid on implicit knowledge when it comes to experience, and explanatory ambitions are expressed. If the knowledge claims are interpreted in a strong way, the action-space account becomes a form of conservative enactivism, which is a kind of cognitivism. Only if the knowledge claims are weakly interpreted, the action space-account can be seen ...

Enacting standards in organic agriculture

Assessing, Engaging, and Enacting Worlds

Assessing, Engaging, and Enacting Worlds Wendy Harcourt, L. H. M. Ling, Marysia Zalewski & Swiss International Relations Collective (Elisabeth Prügl, Rahel Kunz, Jonas Hagmann, Xavier Guillaume and Jean-Christophe Graz) a International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands Email: b The New School, USA Email: c University of Aberdeen, Scotland Email: d SWIRCO, Switzerland Published online...

Does democracy assistance promote democracy?

1 Democracy assistance may contribute to democratisation in a number of ways. It can channel support for elections, it can strengthen legislatures and judiciaries by creating checks and balances on the executive and other bodies, and it can promote democratic participation by strengthening civil society organisations, among others. Against a background of growing concern for democracy worldwide...

Editorial: Re-Enacting Sensorimotor Experience for Cognition

Recent findings in cognitive science suggest that the human brain implements processes of simulation of sensorimotor activity (Pezzulo et al., 2013; Case et al., 2015; Wood et al., 2016). By re-enacting sensorimotor experience, the brain would be capable of anticipating the sensory consequences of intended motor actions. This would enable the individual to efficiently and fluidly interact with ...