Enacting is Enough
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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 as a distinctive form of enactivism, but then all reductive explanatory ambitions must be abandoned. Erik Myin Universiteit Antwerpen Daniel D. Hutto University of Hertfordshire 1. The Action-Space Account as an Explanatory Theory of Color Experience The core of “The Agent in Magenta,” consists in the promotion of the actionspace account of color consciousness over that of the sensorimotor contingency theory. Despite other important differences, both views agree in placing primary emphasis on implicit knowledge when it comes to experience. The former focuses on how such knowledge matters to understanding the consequences that experience has for action while the latter focuses on the consequences actions have for perception. In stressing this, the action-space account can be interpreted as a version of conservative enactivism with explanatory ambitions. Conservative (as opposed, to radical versions of enactivism, on which we’ll expand below) are precisely those that make essential appeal to mediating knowledge when it comes to understanding the basis of experience. 1 Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Antwerpen, Prinsstraat 13, B2000 Antwerpen, Belgium www.ua.ac.be/erik.myin, [email protected] 2 School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK http://go.herts.ac.uk/danielhutto [email protected] 3 The claims regarding implicit knowledge in the sensorimotor contingency theory vary, depending on the locus of expression. For a version of the sensorimotor contingency theory with very weak such claims, see Myin & O’Regan (2009).
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