• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.303-341
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• 2014

Enactivism is the most influential and groundbreaking approach among the various theories of embodied cognition. Despite of it's impact and relatively long history, however, Enactivism is still considered as a new and unfamiliar theory in the Korean academic society. Even though this might be partly due to the genuine depth and dramatic approach of Enactivism, it is also due to the disagreement of Korean translation of Enactivism. This paper reviews the philosophical and theoretical implications of Enactivism in the context of history and conceptual terrain, and discusses how the various tranlated Korean words of 'Enaction' - '발제(發製)' '구성(構成)', or '행위화(行爲化)'- embraced and interpreted the essence of philosophy and concept of 'Enaction' and 'Enactivism'. Furthermore, we offer several alternatives Korean translations of 'Enaction': '실행(實行)', 수행(遂行/修行), or 작동(作動). Through this discussion, we hope to provide an opportunity for Korean researchers and philosophers to direct their attention to Enactivism properly and to make a common ground for further development of Enactivism in Korea.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.343-384
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• 2014

In order to unravel the problems of the mind, today's cognitive science has expanded its perspective from the narrow framework of the past computer model or neuronal network model to the wider frameworks of interaction with the brain in interaction with the body in interaction with their environments. The theories of 'the extended mind', 'embodied mind', or 'enactive mind' appeared through such processes are working on a way to move into the environments while the problem to unravel the complex process of interactions between the mind, the body and the environments are left alone. This problem can be traced back as far as to Gibson and Maturana & Varela who tried at first to unravel the problem of the mind in terms of interaction between the brain, the body and there environments in 1960~70s. It's because Gibson stressed the importance of the 'affordance' provided by the environment while Maturana & Varela emphasized the 'autonomy' of auto-poiesis of life. However, it will be proper to say that there are invariants in the affordances provided by the environment as well as the autonomy of life in the state of structural coupling of the environment's variants and life's openness toward the environment. In this case, the confrontational points between Gibson and Maturana & Varela will be resolved. In this article, I propose Benjamin's theory of mimesis as a mediator of both theories. Because Benjamin's concept of mimesis has the process of making a constellation of the embodiment of the affordance and the enaction of new affordance into the environment at the same time, Gibson's concept of the affordance and Maturana & Varela's concept of embodiment and enaction will be so smoothly interconnected to circulate through the medium of Benjamin's concept of mimesis.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.16-20
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• 1980

1970년대초의 오일, 쇼크에 이어 현재는 제2차 석유파동에 들어서고 있다. 이의 발단이 된 .78 년말의 이란정변은 이란석유의 감산에 따라 세계적인 공급이 부족하게 되었다. 이에 따라 .79년 초부터 원유가격이 뜀박질하는 결과를 가져와 세계의 Energy가치는 급속한 템포로 변화하였다. 더욱이 1980년 9월부터 2개월 이상을 끌어온 이란-이라크전쟁은 대폭적인 석유감산과 중동산의 원유유통의 문제화 등으로 바렐(bl:Barrel)당 2$의 공식적인 인상과 현물시장가격의 20% 유가 인상은 석유소비국들을 공포의 도가니로 몰아 넣고 있다. 특히 OPEC(석유수출국기구)의 정책은 자원의 보호라는 미명아래 이른바 "More money for less oil"(생산은 적게 수입은 보다 많이) 라는 말로 생산을 억제하면서 원유가격을 인상하여 수입을 증가시키는 방향으로 변해가고 있다. 이와 같은 석유가격의 고등과 공급이 불안정한 상황하에서 미래의 석유사정을 예측한다는 것은 어려운 일이나, 지금까지 발표된 문헌들을 기초로 미루어 보아 금후의 석유사정과 이것이 자 동차용 연료에 어떠한 영향을 미치나 살펴보기로 한다. 살펴보기로 한다.