# Hutto&Myin 2011 Book Preview **Opening (not a real abstract):** For those working in the sciences of the mind these are interesting times. Revolution is, yet again, in the air. This time it has come in the wake of avant-garde Enactive or Embodied approaches to cognition that bid us to reform thinking about the basic nature of mind. Today, “Embodied cognition is sweeping the planet” (Adams 2010, p. 619). The most radical versions of these approaches are marked out by their uncompromising and thoroughgoing rejection of intellectualism about the basic nature of mind, abandoning the idea that all mentality involves or implies content. Call this – the view we defend – Radically Enactive/Embodied Cognition, or REC, for short. Influenced by phenomenology, dynamical systems theory and developments in robotics, proponents of Enactive and Embodied ways of **Authors:** [[- H.G. Wells]]