4E cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) is a relatively young and thriving field of interdisciplinary research. It assumes that cognition is shaped and structured by dynamic interactions between the brain, body, and both the physical and social environments.With essays from leading scholars and researchers, The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognitioninvestigates this recent paradigm. It addresses the central issues of embodied cognition by focusing on recent trends, such as Bayesian inference and predictive coding, and presenting new insights, such as the development of false belief understanding. The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition also introduces new theoretical paradigms for understanding emotion and conceptualizing the interactions between cognition, language, and culture. With an entire section dedicated to the application of 4E cognition in disciplines such as psychiatry and robotics, and critical notes aimed at stimulating discussion, this Oxford handbook is the definitive guide to 4E cognition.Aimed at neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers, The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in this young and thriving field.

Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction: 4E Cognition: Historical Roots, Key Concepts, and Central Issues, Albert Newen, Shaun Gallagher, and Leon de BruinPart II: What is Cognition? 2. Extended Cognition, Julian Kiverstein3. Ecological-Enactive Cognition as Engaging with a Field of Relevant Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF), Erik Rietveld, Damiaan Denys, and Maarten Van Westen4. The Enactive Conception of Life, Ezequiel Di Paolo5. Going Radical, Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin6. Critical Note: So, What Again is 4E Cognition?, Ken AizawaPart III: Modelling and Experimentation 7. The Predictive Processing Hypothesis, Jakob Hohwy8. Interacting in the Open: Where Dynamical Systems Become Extended and Embodied, Maurice Lamb and Anthony Chemero9. Searching for the Conditions of Genuine Intersubjectivity: From Agent-based Models to Perceptual Crossing Experiments, Tom Froese10. Cognitive Integration: How Culture Transforms Us and Extends our Cognitive Capabilities, Richard Menary11. Critical Note: Cognitive Systems and the Dynamics of Representing-in-the-world, Tobias SchlichtPart IV: Cognition, Action, and Perception 12. The Body in Action: Predictive Processing and the Embodiment Thesis, Michael D. Kirchhoff13. Joint Action and Ecognition, Deborah Tollefsen and Rick Dale14. Perception, Exploration, and the Primacy of Touch, Matthew Ratcliffe15. Direct Social Perception, Joel Krueger16. Critical Note: Bodily Experience, Action and Perception from the 4e Perspective, Sven WalterPart V: Brain-Body-Environment Coupling and Its Perception 17. Disclosing the World: Intentionality and 4e Cognition, Mark Rowlands18. Building a Stronger Concept of Embodiment, Shaun Gallagher19. Motor Intentionality, Elisabeth Pacherie20. The Extended Body Hypothesis: Referred Sensations from Tools to Peripersonal Space, Frederique De Vignemont21. Critical Note: Brain-body-environment Couplings: What do they Teach us about Cognition?, Arne M. Weber and Gottfried VosgerauPart VI: Social Cognition 22. Embodied Resonance, Vittorio Gallese and Corrado Sinigaglia23. Why Engagement? A Second Person Take on Social Cognition, Vasudevi Reddy24. The Intersubjective Turn, Hanne De Jaegher25. The Person Model Theory and the Question of Situatedness of Social Understanding, Albert Newen26. False Belief Understanding, 4E Cognition and the Predictive Processing Paradigm, Leon De Bruin27. Critical Note: How Revisionary are 4E accounts of Social Cognition?, Mitchell HerschbachPart VII: Emotion 28. Thinking and Feeling: A Social-developmental Perspective, Peter Hobson29. Beyond Mirroring: 4E Perspectives on Empathy, Dan Zahavi and John Michael30. Embodiment of Emotion and its Situated Nature, Evan W. Carr, Anne Kever and Piotr Winkielman31. Enacting Affectivity, Giovanna Colombetti32. Critical Note: 3Es are Sufficient, but Don 't Forget the D - A Critical Note on Situated Affectivity, Achim StephanPart VIII: Language And Learning 33. The Embodiment of Language, Mark Johnson34. The Embodiment of Concepts: Theoretical Perspectives and the Role of Predictive Processing, Michiel Van Elk and Harold Bekkering35. Origins and Complexities of Infant Communication and Social Cognition, Ulf Liszkowski36. Developing an Understanding of Normativity, Marco F. H. Schmidt and Hannes Rakoczy37. Critical Note: Language and Learning from the 4e Perspective, Hans-Johann GlockPart IX: Evolution and Culture 38. The Evolution of Cognition: A 4e Perspective, Louise Barrett39. Mindshaping, Tadeusz W. Zawidzki40. Bringing Things to Mind: 4Es and Material Engagement, Lambros Malafouris41. Culture and the Extended Phenotype: Cognition and Material Culture in Deep Time, Kim Sterelny42. Critical Note: Evolution of Human Cognition, Andreas Roepstorff and Tobias StarzakPart X: Applications 43. Communication as Fundamental Paradigm for Psychopathology, Kai Vogeley44. Scaffolding Intuitive Rationality, Cameron Buckner45. Robots as Powerful Allies for the Study of Embodied Cognition from the Bottom Up, Matej Hoffmann and Rolf Pfeifer46. Interpersonal Judgments, Embodied Reasoning and Juridical Legitimacy, Somogy Varga47. Embodied Cognition and the Humanities, Amy Cook48. Embodied Aesthetics, Barbara G. Montero