Daniel D. Hutto is an American
philosopher
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and professor of
philosophical psychology
''Philosophical Psychology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the links between philosophy and psychology.
The journal publishes research in ethical and philosophical issues emerging from the cognitive sciences, social sciences, an ...
jointly at the
University of Wollongong
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and
University of Hertfordshire
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.
He is known for his research on
enactivism
Enactivism is a position in cognitive science that argues that cognition arises through a dynamic interaction between an acting organism and its environment. It claims that the environment of an organism is brought about, or enacted, by the active ...
,
affect,
folk psychology
In philosophy of mind and cognitive science, folk psychology, or commonsense psychology, is a human capacity to explain and predict the behavior and mental state of other people. Processes and items encountered in daily life such as pain, pleasure ...
and
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is considere ...
's philosophy. He is also known for designing and heading the degree of Western Civilisation at the University of Wollongong. This degree has led to controversy due to being funded by the
Ramsay Centre, of which former prime ministers
Toby Abbott and
John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the s ...
are board members.
See also
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Space Infantry
*
embodied cognition
Embodied cognition is the theory that many features of cognition, whether human or otherwise, are shaped by aspects of an organism's entire body. Sensory and motor systems are seen as fundamentally integrated with cognitive processing. The cognit ...
Bibliography
* ''Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content'' (with Myin, E.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, Bradford Books. (2013)
* ''Folk Psychological Narratives: The Socio-Cultural Basis of Understanding Reasons''. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, Bradford Books. (2008, paperback edition 2013)
* ''Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy: Neither Theory Nor Therapy''. Basingstoke: Palgrave. (2006, 2003). 1st edition (2003). Second, revised edition (2006) contains an additional chapter with replies to papers by Rupert Read (2004, 2006) and Phil Hutchinson and Rupert Read (2006)
* Daniel D. Hutto & Matthew Ratcliffe (eds.), ''Folk Psychology Re-Assessed''; Dorndrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2007;
References
External links
Hutto at the University of Wollongong
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21st-century American philosophers
Academic staff of the University of Wollongong
Analytic philosophers
American expatriate academics
Living people
Philosophers of psychology
Alumni of the University of York
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Marist College alumni
Academics of the University of Hertfordshire
Year of birth missing (living people)