Feminist Philosophies of E-Cognition

This is a collection of works that incorporate feminist theory and e-approaches to cognition (broadly understood as enactive, extended, embodied, extended, and/or ecological). The label is my own and is meant only to collect this literature in the tradition of other feminist philosophies of particular sciences; it does not imply a certain type of approach, methodology, or shared commitments amongst authors.


Please email me with any additions to the list (with citation or doi included). Note that I only check the reference list to make sure that both e-cognition and feminist theory are represented.

Ayala‐López, Saray. 2018. “A Structural Explanation of Injustice in Conversations: It’s about Norms.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99, no. 4: 726–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12244.

Ayala, Saray. 2016. “Speech Affordances: A Structural Take on How Much We Can Do with Our Words: Speech Capacity: A Structural Approach.” European Journal of Philosophy 24, no. 4: 879–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12186.

Ayala, Saray, and Nadya Vasilyeva. 2015. “Extended Sex: An Account of Sex for a More Just Society.” Hypatia 30, no. 4: 725–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12180.

Birhane, Abeba. 2021. “Algorithmic Injustice: A Relational Ethics Approach.” Patterns 2, no. 2: 100205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100205.

Brahnam, Sheryl, and Antonella De Angeli. 2012. “Gender Affordances of Conversational Agents.” Interacting with Computers 24, no. 3: 139–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2012.05.001.

Brancazio, Nick. 2018. “Irreducible Aspects of Embodiment: Situating Scientist and Subject.” Australasian Philosophical Review 2, no. 2: 219–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2018.1552101.

Brancazio, Nick. 2018. “Gender and the Senses of Agency.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-018-9581-z.

Brancazio, Nick. 2020. “Being Perceived and Being ‘Seen’: Interpersonal Affordances, Agency, and Selfhood.” Frontiers in Psychology 11: 1750. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01750.

Candiotto, Laura, and Hanne De Jaegher. 2021. “Love In-Between.” The Journal of Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-020-09357-9.

Daly, Anya. 2021. “The Declaration of Interdependence! Feminism, Grounding and Enactivism.” Human Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-020-09570-3.

Cash, Mason. 2013. “Cognition without Borders: ‘Third Wave’ Socially Distributed Cognition and Relational Autonomy.” Cognitive Systems Research 25–26: 61–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.03.007.

De Jaegher, Hanne. 2019. “Loving and Knowing: Reflections for an Engaged Epistemology.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-019-09634-5.

De Jaegher, Hanne. 2013. “Rigid and Fluid Interactions with Institutions.” Cognitive Systems Research 25–26: 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.03.002.

Di Paolo, Ezequiel A., Elena Clare Cuffari, and Hanne De Jaegher. 2018. Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. [see chapter 12 specifically]

Liao, Shen-Yi, and Bryce Huebner. 2021. “Oppressive Things.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 103 (1): 92–113.

Liao, Shen-Yi, and Vanessa Carbonell. 2022. “Materialized Oppression in Medical Tools and Technologies.” The American Journal of Bioethics: AJOB, March, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2044543 (also available at https://philpapers.org/rec/LIAMOI)

Loaiza, Juan M. 2019. From enactive concern to care in social life: towards an enactive anthropology of caring. Adaptive Behavior27(1), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712318800673

Maiese, Michelle. 2021. “Mindshaping, Enactivism, and Ideological Oppression.” Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy, October. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09770-1.

Maiese, Michelle. 2019. “Embodiment, Sociality, and the Life Shaping Thesis.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 18 (2): 353–74.

Maiese, Michelle. 2017. “Transformative Learning, Enactivism, and Affectivity.” Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (2): 197–216.

Merritt, Michele C. 2010. Queering Cognition: Extended Minds and Sociotechnologically Hybridized Gender. University of South Florida.

Merritt, Michele. 2013. “Instituting Impairment: Extended Cognition and the Construction of Female Sexual Dysfunction.” Cognitive Systems Research 25–26: 47–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.03.005.

Merritt, Michele. 2014. “Making (Non) Sense of Gender.” In Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making, 285–306. Springer. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137363367_12.

Paxton, Alexandra, Julia J. C. Blau, and Mikayla L. Weston. 2019. “The Case for Intersectionality in Ecological Psychology.” PsyArXiv. June 13. doi:10.31234/osf.io/jtmea.

Pearlman, Karen, John MacKay and John Sutton. 2018. “Creative Editing: Svilova and Vertov’s Distributed Cognition”. Women at the Editing Table: Revising Soviet Film History of the 1920s and 1930s (ed. by Adelheid Heftberger and Karen Pearlman). Special Issue of Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2018.0006.122

Pitts-Taylor, Victoria. 2016. The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.

Pitts-Taylor, Victoria. 2014. ‘The Mind in the Body: Feminist and Neurocognitive Perspectives on Embodiment,’ Neurocultures, Neurogenderings (Ed. Sigrid Schmidt and Grit Hoppner, Referat Genderforschung, University of Vienna; Publisher: Zaglossus, EU).

Quintero, Alejandra Martínez, and Hanne De Jaegher. 2020. “Pregnant Agencies: Movement and Participation in Maternal–Fetal Interactions.” Frontiers in Psychology 11: 1977. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01977.

Urban, Petr. 2014. “Toward an Expansion of an Enactive Ethics with the Help of Care Ethics.” Frontiers in Psychology 5 (November): 1354. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01354.

Solomon, Miriam. 2006. “Situated Cognition.” Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science: A Volume of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series, 359–74.