Abstract

Enactivism was born as an epistemological theory of cognition grounded in biology, phenomenology and cognitive science. Assuredly, back in 1991 when the theory was first put forth, a possible application of enactivism to aesthetics would have sounded a bit strange to its creators Francisco Varela, Eleanor Rosch and Evan Thompson, and perhaps far from their original intentions. But today, when various forms of naturalism are taking place in contemporary aesthetics, it is clear, for updated rea...