Interactivism mechanized

Bridging the gap between cognition, correspondence, and computation

Bibliographic Data

ID21750797
AuthorsMarcin Miłkowski (0000-0001-7646-5742, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-06-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1568-7759 • E-ISSN: 1572-8676
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11097-025-10082-7
OpenAlexW4411472669
LanguageEN
References cited72

This paper augments Mark Bickhard’s interactivist model by incorporating mechanistic explanation, computation, and a non-encodingist correspondence. It argues for a mechanistic framework (drawing on the new mechanism’s focus on organized entities and activities) that preserves core interactivist principles: process ontology, representation as emergent from interaction, rejection of encodingism, and the centrality of system-detectable error. However, grounding representational normativity solely in action outcomes or self-maintenance faces limitations. This paper proposes instead that normativity arises from epistemic norms within cognitive problem-solving, encompassing alethic, pragmatic, and economic dimensions addressed through bounded rationality under functional constraints. A novel framework integrating interactivism with this mechanistic view, computation, and infocorrespondence (a specific, non-encodingist correspondence based on information channels) is developed. This framework emphasizes semantic information processed by computational mechanisms, with inconsistency detection between information vehicles (leveraging informational redundancy) serving as a key system-accessible proxy for representational error (falsity). This synthesis offers a more robust account of error detection, the truth-success relationship, and the grounding of epistemic normativity, thereby enriching interactivist theory

Algorithm · Cognitive science · Computation · Epistemology · Philosophy of mind · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Semantic Web and Ontologies · Artificial Intelligence · Theoretical Computer Science

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