Jasper C Van Den Herik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1292147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jasper C Van Den Herik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jasper C Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Herik |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN HERIK J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amsterdam University Medical Centers |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4797-4104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language
The reflexive roots of reference
In this paper I argue that the ecological-enactive approach can deal with the problem of reference by evading it. I do so by combining two ideas. First, language is a situated form of social behaviour that is best understood in terms of directing ecological attention. Language is not some ‘thing’ that needs to be connected to the world through reference, rather it is a form of co-action in the world. From an ecological-enactive perspective, inste…
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity
Rules as Resources: An Ecological-Enactive Perspective on Linguistic Normativity
In this paper, I develop an ecological-enactive perspective on the role rules play in linguistic behaviour. I formulate and motivate the hypothesis that metalinguistic reflexivity – our ability to talk about talking – is constitutive of linguistic normativity. On first sight, this hypothesis might seem to fall prey to a regress objection. By discussing the work of Searle, I show that this regress objection originates in the idea that learning lan…
Reflective Situated Normativity
Situated normativity is the ability of skilled individuals to distinguish better from worse, adequate from inadequate, appropriate from inappropriate, or correct from incorrect in the context of a particular situation. Situated normativity consists in a situated appreciation expressed in normative behaviour, and can be experienced as a bodily affective tension that motivates a skilled individual to act on particular possibilities for action offer…
Embodying mental affordances
The concept of affordances is rapidly gaining traction in the philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences. Affordances are opportunities for action provided by the environment. An important open question is whether affordances can be used to explain mental action such as attention, counting, and imagination. In this paper, we critically discuss McClelland’s (‘The Mental Affordance Hypothesis’, 2020, Mind, 129(514), pp. 401–427) mental affordance hy…
A twofold tale of one mind: Revisiting REC’s multi-storey story
The Radical Enactive/Embodied view of Cognition, or REC, claims that all cognition is a matter of skilled performance. Yet REC also makes a distinction between basic and content-involving cognition, arguing that the development of basic to content-involving cognition involves a kink. It might seem that this distinction leads to problematic gaps in REC’s story. We address two such alleged gaps in this paper. First, we identify and reply to the con…
Metalinguistic exchanges in child language development
In everyday speech, language is often the topic of talk. In this paper we aim to draw attention to the role of such metalinguistic activity in early language development. We approach this topic through an ecological lens. To achieve this goal, we examine observational data from a single child participating in conversational episodes concerning linguistic phenomena—episodes which we term “metalinguistic exchanges”—at 2 and 3 years old. We draw att…
Linguistic know-how and the orders of language
Linguistic know-how and the orders of language
A twofold tale of one mind: Revisiting REC’s multi-storey story
The Radical Enactive/Embodied view of Cognition, or REC, claims that all cognition is a matter of skilled performance. Yet REC also makes a distinction between basic and content-involving cognition, arguing that the development of basic to content-involving cognition involves a kink. It might seem that this distinction leads to problematic gaps in REC’s story. We address two such alleged gaps in this paper. First, we identify and reply to the con…
Metalinguistic exchanges in child language development
In everyday speech, language is often the topic of talk. In this paper we aim to draw attention to the role of such metalinguistic activity in early language development. We approach this topic through an ecological lens. To achieve this goal, we examine observational data from a single child participating in conversational episodes concerning linguistic phenomena—episodes which we term “metalinguistic exchanges”—at 2 and 3 years old. We draw att…
The reflexive roots of reference
In this paper I argue that the ecological-enactive approach can deal with the problem of reference by evading it. I do so by combining two ideas. First, language is a situated form of social behaviour that is best understood in terms of directing ecological attention. Language is not some ‘thing’ that needs to be connected to the world through reference, rather it is a form of co-action in the world. From an ecological-enactive perspective, inste…
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity
Linguistic know-how and the orders of language
Rules as Resources: An Ecological-Enactive Perspective on Linguistic Normativity
In this paper, I develop an ecological-enactive perspective on the role rules play in linguistic behaviour. I formulate and motivate the hypothesis that metalinguistic reflexivity – our ability to talk about talking – is constitutive of linguistic normativity. On first sight, this hypothesis might seem to fall prey to a regress objection. By discussing the work of Searle, I show that this regress objection originates in the idea that learning lan…
Reflective Situated Normativity
Situated normativity is the ability of skilled individuals to distinguish better from worse, adequate from inadequate, appropriate from inappropriate, or correct from incorrect in the context of a particular situation. Situated normativity consists in a situated appreciation expressed in normative behaviour, and can be experienced as a bodily affective tension that motivates a skilled individual to act on particular possibilities for action offer…
Embodying mental affordances
The concept of affordances is rapidly gaining traction in the philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences. Affordances are opportunities for action provided by the environment. An important open question is whether affordances can be used to explain mental action such as attention, counting, and imagination. In this paper, we critically discuss McClelland’s (‘The Mental Affordance Hypothesis’, 2020, Mind, 129(514), pp. 401–427) mental affordance hy…
A twofold tale of one mind: Revisiting REC’s multi-storey story
The Radical Enactive/Embodied view of Cognition, or REC, claims that all cognition is a matter of skilled performance. Yet REC also makes a distinction between basic and content-involving cognition, arguing that the development of basic to content-involving cognition involves a kink. It might seem that this distinction leads to problematic gaps in REC’s story. We address two such alleged gaps in this paper. First, we identify and reply to the con…
Metalinguistic exchanges in child language development
In everyday speech, language is often the topic of talk. In this paper we aim to draw attention to the role of such metalinguistic activity in early language development. We approach this topic through an ecological lens. To achieve this goal, we examine observational data from a single child participating in conversational episodes concerning linguistic phenomena—episodes which we term “metalinguistic exchanges”—at 2 and 3 years old. We draw att…
The reflexive roots of reference
In this paper I argue that the ecological-enactive approach can deal with the problem of reference by evading it. I do so by combining two ideas. First, language is a situated form of social behaviour that is best understood in terms of directing ecological attention. Language is not some ‘thing’ that needs to be connected to the world through reference, rather it is a form of co-action in the world. From an ecological-enactive perspective, inste…
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language
Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)