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  • 9 - Clarifying the Character of Habits

  • from Part II - The Enactment of Habits in Mind and World
  • Edited by Fausto Caruana, Italo Testa, Università degli Studi, Parma
  • Book:
    Habits
    Published online:
    24 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 204-222

  • Summary

    This chapter aims to set the record straight about a special sort of intelligence exhibited by habitual doings. It defends an enactivist account of habitual doings which, at its core, depicts habits as flexible and adjustable modes of response that are world directed and context sensitive. So understood, habits are wholly unlike the exercise of blind mechanisms or mindless reflexes. Nevertheless, we resist the familiar forced choice of thereby understanding habits in standard cognitivist terms. Our proposal aims to avoid the twin mistakes of either underintellectualizing or overintellectualizing habits. In tune with our enactivist elucidation of the core character of habits, the chapter also explicates how habits, so conceived, can support and thwart our larger projects.