Browsing FACULTY OF ARTS by Author "McGann, Marek"
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Convergently emergent- ecological and enactive approaches to the texture of agency (Pre-published)
McGann, Marek (Frontiers Media, 2020-08-07)Enactive and ecological approaches to cognitive science both claim a “mutuality” between agents and their environments – that they have a complementary nature and should be addressed as a single whole system. Despite this ... -
Doing it and meaning it (and the relationship between the two) (pre-published version)
McGann, Marek (John Benjamins, 2005)A number of related approaches to cognition and consciousness have been gaining momentum in the literature in recent years, emphasizing the active, embodied nature of the mind and grounding mental states and processes in ... -
Editorial: challenges to mean-based analysis in Psychology: the contrast between individual people and general science
McGann, Marek; Speelman, Craig P. (Frontiers, 2016) -
Enacting a social ecology: radically embodied intersubjectivity
McGann, Marek (Frontiers, 2014)Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as “world-involving, ”indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment ... -
Enaction and psychology (pre-published version)
McGann, Marek; De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (American Psychological Association (APA), 2013)The enactive approach to cognitive science aims to provide an account of the mind that is both naturalistic and nonreductive. Psychological activity is viewed not as occurring within the individual organism but in the ... -
Enactive theorists do it on purpose: on why the enactive approach demands an account of goals and goal-directedness.
McGann, Marek (Springer Netherlands, 2007)The enactive approach to cognitive science involves frequent references to “action” without making clear what is intended by the term. In particular, no definition or account is offered of goals which can encompass not ... -
How mean is the mean?
McGann, Marek; Speelman, Craig P. (Frontiers, 2013)In this paper we voice concerns about the uncritical manner in which the mean is often used as a summary statistic in psychological research. We identify a number of implicit assumptions underlying the use of the mean and ... -
Loud crisis, quiet crisis: Varela’s proposal resonates in contemporary psychological science
McGann, Marek (Constructivist Foundations, 2017)Open peer commentary on the article “Varela’s Radical Proposal: How to Embody and Open Up Cognitive Science” by Kristian Moltke Martiny. Upshot: Varela’s proposal that science should be open to the phenomena of experience ... -
Perceptual modalities: modes of presentation or modes of interaction?
McGann, Marek (Imprint Academic, 2010)Perceptual modalities have been traditionally considered the product of dedicated biological systems producing information for higher cognitive processing. Psychological and neuropsychological evidence is offered which ... -
Sampling participants’ experience in laboratory experiments: complementary challenges for more complete data collection
McGann, Marek; McAuliffe, Alan (Frontiers, 2016)Speelman and McGann’s (2013) examination of the uncritical way in which the mean is often used in psychological research raises questions both about the average’s reliability and its validity. In the present paper, we argue ... -
Searching for moral dumbfounding: identifying measurable indicators of moral dumbfounding
McHugh, Cillian; McGann, Marek; Igou, Eric R.; Kinsella, Elaine L. (2017)Moral dumbfounding is defined as maintaining a moral judgement, without supporting reasons. The most cited demonstration of dumbfounding does not identify a specific measure of dumbfounding and has not been published in ... -
Self-other contingencies: enacting social perception
McGann, Marek; De Jaegher, Hanne (Springer Netherlands, 2009)Can we see the expressiveness of other people's gestures, hear the intentions in their voice, see the emotions in their posture? Traditional theories of social cognition still say we cannot, because intentions and emotions ... -
Situated agency: the normative medium of human action
McGann, Marek (Croatian Philosophical Society, 2014)In this paper the notion of individual agency is critically examined in light of the enactive approach to understanding the mind. It is argued that following the work of Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Tom Froese and ... -
T-REX- the teachers’ research exchange. Overcoming the research-practice gap in education (Pre-published)
McGann, Marek; Ryan, Marie; McMahon, Jennifer; Hall, Tony (Springer, 2020-04-19)This paper introduces the Teachers Research Exchange (T-REX), an online community of practice that is currently being deployed on a pilot basis nationwide in Ireland as a response to the research-practice gap . The system ... -
Two kinds of theory- what psychology can learn from Einstein (Pre-published)
McGann, Marek; Speelman, Craig P. (SAGE Publications, 2020-04-24)A century ago, Einstein distinguished between two kinds of theory—theories of principle and constructive theories. These have separate but complementary roles to play in the advancement of knowledge, in the manner in which ... -
The use of a distal-to-tactile sensory substitution interface does not lead to extension of body image
McGann, Marek; Froese, Tom; Bigge, William; Spiers, Adam; Seth, Anil K. (EDP Sciences, 2011)A range of studies in the past decade and a half indicate significant impacts of tool use on body image. In cases of intentional action, contractions of near space or experienced extensions of limbs have been shown when ...