Disability, economic agency, and embodied cognition

Thomas Abrams ()
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Thomas Abrams: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto

Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2017, vol. 16, issue 1, No 5, 94 pages

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, I combine the actor-network economic sociology of disability with recent developments in phenomenological, embodied cognitive science, to discuss how ability, calculative agency, and meaning are distributed throughout materially situated sociocognitive systems. I begin by outlining the actor-network approach to disability, market formation, and economic agency. Next, I turn to the cognitive sciences, and describe the emergence of consciousness and meaning in embodied human being. With an operative synthesis of the two projects in place, I turn to government-organized disability savings plans in Canada. I suggest that the low uptake of these plans can be explained using the theoretical synthesis provided in the first two sections of this paper, giving a robust account of the threefold distribution of ability, calculative agency, and meaning.

Keywords: Disability; Actor-network theory; Economic rationality; Phenomenology; Extended cognition; Embodiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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