The dissolution of the frame problem from the perspective of embodied and enactive intertwinement of affect and cognition

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Tezin Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2017

Öğrenci: AYŞE USLU

Danışman: ELİF ÇIRAKMAN

Özet:

This dissertation aims to examine whether it is possible to show that there is no emotionless cognition and no emotion without cognition in terms of the meaning-generating role of the body and if this is possible, then how this contributes to dissolution of the frame problem. The main argument of the dissertation is that the dissolution of the frame problem depends on the recognition of the fact that cognition and emotion are embodied processes, and sense-making processes for living-beings are results of the interplay between cognition and affectivity, which are intertwined. In this respect, this dissertation criticizes the cognitivist approaches regarding cognition and emotion as disembodied processes, and correspondingly claiming emotion-cognition dichotomy since any approach based on disembodiment to cognition and emotion and separation of them cannot give account of how the frame problem is not a problem for living beings at all.