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Embodiment, Interaction, and Experience: Toward a Comprehensive Model in Addiction Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Nicholas Zautra
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Abstract

Current theories of addiction try to explain what addiction is, who experiences it, why it occurs, and how it develops and persists. In this article, I explain why none of these theories can be accepted as a comprehensive model. I argue that current models fail to account for differences in embodiment, interaction processes, and the experience of addiction. To redress these limiting factors, I design a proposal for an enactive account of addiction that follows the enactive model of autism proposed by Hanne De Jaegher.

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Cognitive Science
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 82 , Issue 5 , December 2015 , pp. 1023 - 1034
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Randall Beer, Shane Zappettini, Anastasia Nikoulina, Eran Magnon, Dan Qaurooni, Evan Arnet, and the participants at the PSA 2014 “Contributed Papers: Psychiatry” session for valuable discussion and feedback.

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