Further Reading

Further reading on the questions explored in Enacting Life. Works already cited in the readings are not repeated here; see the references at the end of each reading.

Ways In

Thompson, E. (2022). What is mind? Mind & Life Institute.

Bich, L. (2024). Biological organization. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009393959

Lived Experience

Ward, D. (2026). What is enactivism? Adaptive Behavior, 34(4–5), 253–271. https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123261450094

Bogotá, J. D. (2024). Life, sense-making, and subjectivity: Why the enactive conception of life and mind requires phenomenology. Synthese, 204, 101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04746-1

Other Strands of Enactivism

O’Regan, J. K., & Noë, A. (2001). A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 939–973. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X01000115

Hutto, D. D., & Myin, E. (2013). Radicalizing enactivism: Basic minds without content. MIT Press.

De Jaegher, H., & Di Paolo, E. (2007). Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485–507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9

Development

Di Paolo, E. A. (2019). Process and individuation: The development of sensorimotor agency. Human Development, 63(3–4), 202–226. https://doi.org/10.1159/000503827

Corris, A. (2022). An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-022-09865-y

Neuroscience

Brette, R. (2019). Is coding a relevant metaphor for the brain? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e215. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19000049

Cisek, P. (2019). Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(7), 2265–2287. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01760-1

Critiques and Open Problems

Cummins, F., & De Jesus, P. (2016). The loneliness of the enactive cell: Towards a bio-enactive framework. Adaptive Behavior, 24(3), 149–159. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712316644965

Di Paolo, E. A., Thompson, E., & Beer, R. D. (2022). Laying down a forking path: Tensions between enaction and the free energy principle. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 3, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.33735/phimisci.2022.9187

Reynolds, J., & Baedke, J. (2026). From autopoiesis to symbiotic entanglement: Rethinking enactivism through metabolism and microbes. Adaptive Behavior, 34(4–5), 295–306. https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123251405680

Meyer, R., Stendera, M., & Russell, J. (2026). Prospects for the science of enaction: Introduction to the special issue. Adaptive Behavior, 34(4–5), 247–251. https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123261469743