Abstract:
Enactive cognition psychology, as a new school of cognitive psychology, is the most revolutionary challenge to the traditional cognitive psychology, which takes "representation" as its research program. Because of its shift from phenomenology, pragmatism and normativism in psychological methodology, enactive cognitive psychology realizes the transformation of ontology, epistemology and methodology in traditional cognitive psychology. At present, four representative research approaches: Varela's autopeisis research approach, Noe's sensorimotor research approach, Hutto's radical enactivism research approach and De Jaeger's inter-enactivism research approach, have developed and perfected such school's theory from different aspects.This paper makes comments on its historical achievements and mistakes, and the realistic rights and wrongs.It points out that in the future, more attentions should be paid to the integration of 4E cognitive theory and development of mature research techniques.It is better to abandon the binary thinking embodied in enactive cognitive psychology in order to promote the healthy development of psychological theories from the perspective of dialectical materialism.