Abstract

As Morabito has highlighted, the study of cognition has had to take (or retake) charge of the central role of action. In this paper, I will consider central points of contemporary cognitive science discussion such as the repositioning of the concept of representation, the strength of the sensorimotor know-how of the enactivist approach, the reversal of the meaning of competence implemented by Dennett, and the naturalist project of biological constraint theory as a methodological entry point, in order to generate further reflections on the relationship between body and cognition, and to return a logical and phylogenetic account of the transition from movement to speech through gesture.