Mosaic or kaleidoscope: tensions between mereology and etiology

Cogn Neurosci. 2024 Sep 21:1-2. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2403339. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

Ecological and enactive approaches to embodied cognition endorse a concept of constitution that involves dynamical causality. I argue that this is a challenge for new mechanistic accounts which hold to a strict distinction between causality and constitution.

Keywords: Causality; constitution; dynamical processes.