We argue for the importance of kinds of bottom-up intentionality, which arise from the world as it is experienced, dynamically structuring and directing our cognitive capacities toward possibilities of (joint) action. A satisfactory explanation should start with the recognition that intentionality is not a monolithic phenomenon and that more basic kinds of intentionality embodied in material culture have played a crucial role in allowing for the complexity of human social cognition. Traditional accounts of our social understanding skills, focusing on the role of intentionality as the “aboutness” associated with the use of symbolic language, make this sort of explanation difficult to articulate. These are the focus of this essay.įrom an enactive perspective, one should be able to explain how perception and actions, constituted in patterns of interactions with the world, evolve into the capacities for social coordination and social understanding distinctive of human beings. Many artifacts exist only in human behavior, individual and social. 120 Wordsmyth, 2006, n.p.).I am as interested in the artifacts of doing as in the artifacts of making. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993, p. In archeology, applied to the rude products of aboriginal workmanship as distinguished from natural remains”, “a product of human art or workmanship”, “any object made by human beings” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2006, n.p. Typical definitions are “anything made by human art and workmanship an artificial product. Most definitions focus on the quality of artifacts as things, speaking of objects and remains rather than process or production. The second, “factum”, is the past participle of “facere”, to do or to make.The word dates back to the early 1800s, meaning “something created by humans usually for a practical purpose especially: an object remaining from a particular period” and “something characteristic of or resulting from a particular human institution, period, trend, or individual” (Merriam-Webster, 1990, p. The first, “arte”, means “by skill”, from “ars”, skill. The word “artifact” comes from two Latin words.
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