An aftertaste of Cartesian salad? Pre-reflective self-consciousness, Peirce, and the study of cognition in the wild. (April 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Steiner, Pierre
• Other Names: Poizat Germain guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Adaptive behavior. Volume 31:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 173
• Publication Date: 2023-04
• Subjects: Pre-reflective self-consciousness -- Peirce -- experience -- meaning -- phenomenology -- enaction; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Animals -- Adaptation -- Periodicals; Adaptability (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Adaptation, Psychological -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; 591.5
• DOI: 10.1177/10597123221094359
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-2633

Abstract

I situate the originality and the ambiguities of the target paper in the context of post-cognitivist cognitive science and in relation with some aspects of Charles Sanders Peirce's anti-Cartesianism. I then focus on what the authors call « pre-reflective self-consciousness », highlighting some ambiguities of the characterizations they propose of this variety of consciousness. These ambiguities can become difficulties once one grants a crucial methodological role to this consciousness in the study of cognitive activities.