Albert Newen received his PhD in 1994 from the University of Bielefeld. He became associate professor in 2003 at Tübingen, changed to the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) in 2007 and was appointed to full professor in 2010. He is director of the interdisciplinary Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution since 2011. He received several research awards, including the Bennigsen-Foerder Award (North-Rhine Westfalia) as well as the award for "Philosophy in Psychiatry" from the society of psychiatry in Germany (DGPPN). He was visiting professor in Oxford, Stanford and Urbana-Champagne. His research combines philosophical theory formation with research in psychology, psychiatry and neurosciencesLeon de Bruin (1979) obtained his PhD in philosophy from the University of Leiden in 2010 with an interdisciplinary study on social cognition. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoc at the Ruhr-University Bochum on the development of false belief understanding. He was appointed assistant professor of philosophy of mind at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 2012, and associate professor of philosophy of mind in 2017.Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. His areas of research include phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, especially topics related to embodiment, self, agency and intersubjectivity, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of time. Dr. Gallagher has a secondary research appointment at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He has held visiting positions at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University; the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen; the Centre de Recherche en Epistémelogie Appliquée (CREA), Paris; the Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon; the Humboldt University in Berlin, and most recently at Keble College, University of Oxford.

What I like most about this book is that it is not just a collection of what 4E Cognition is, it is also a rigorous critique of what it is not: The final chapter in sections one to nine is a critical review of the preceding discussions, providing a balanced view of the topic area. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in cognition, not only to those interested in whether it is embodied, embedded, extended or enacted. The notion of 4E cognition does have its challenges, and this book does not shy away from this. I feel even those with a more critical view of 4E Cognition would enjoy The Oxford handbook of 4E Cognition, and certainly enjoy the critical chapters in each section. Overall, it presents the characterisation of cognition in a clear manner throughout, and while it is a comprehensive read at over 900 pages long, it is a very interesting read none-the-less.

• Part I: Introduction 1: Albert Newen, Shaun Gallagher, and Leon de Bruin: Introduction: 4E Cognition: Historical Roots, Key Concepts, and Central Issues Part II: What is Cognition? 2: Julian Kiverstein: Extended Cognition 3: Erik Rietveld, Damiaan Denys, And Maarten Van Westen: Ecological-Enactive Cognition as Engaging with a Field of Relevant Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF) 4: Ezequiel Di Paolo: The Enactive Conception of Life 5: Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin: Going Radical 6: Ken Aizawa: Critical Note: So, What Again is 4E Cognition? Part III: Modelling and Experimentation 7: Jakob Hohwy: The Predictive Processing Hypothesis 8: Maurice Lamb and Anthony Chemero: Interacting in the Open: Where Dynamical Systems Become Extended and Embodied 9: Tom Froese: Searching for the Conditions of Genuine Intersubjectivity: From Agent-based Models to Perceptual Crossing Experiments 10: Richard Menary: Cognitive Integration: How Culture Transforms Us and Extends our Cognitive Capabilities 11: Tobias Schlicht: Critical Note: Cognitive Systems and the Dynamics of Representing-in-the-world Part IV: Cognition, Action, and Perception 12: Michael D. Kirchhoff: The Body in Action: Predictive Processing and the Embodiment Thesis 13: Deborah Tollefsen and Rick Dale: Joint Action and Ecognition 14: Matthew Ratcliffe: Perception, Exploration, and the Primacy of Touch 15: Joel Krueger: Direct Social Perception 16: Sven Walter: Critical Note: Bodily Experience, Action and Perception from the 4e Perspective Part V: Brain-Body-Environment Coupling and Its Perception 17: Mark Rowlands: Disclosing the World: Intentionality and 4e Cognition 18: Shaun Gallagher: Building a Stronger Concept of Embodiment 19: Elisabeth Pacherie: Motor Intentionality 20: Frédérique De Vignemont: The Extended Body Hypothesis: Referred Sensations from Tools to Peripersonal Space 21: Arne M. Weber and Gottfried Vosgerau: Critical Note: Brain-body-environment Couplings: What do they Teach us about Cognition? Part VI: Social Cognition 22: Vittorio Gallese and Corrado Sinigaglia: Embodied Resonance 23: Vasudevi Reddy: Why Engagement? A Second Person Take on Social Cognition 24: Hanne De Jaegher: The Intersubjective Turn 25: Albert Newen: The Person Model Theory and the Question of Situatedness of Social Understanding 26: Leon De Bruin: False Belief Understanding, 4E Cognition and the Predictive Processing Paradigm 27: Mitchell Herschbach: Critical Note: How Revisionary are 4E accounts of Social Cognition? Part VII: Emotion 28: Peter Hobson: Thinking and Feeling: A Social-developmental Perspective 29: Dan Zahavi and John Michael: Beyond Mirroring: 4E Perspectives on Empathy 30: Evan W. Carr, Anne Kever and Piotr Winkielman: Embodiment of Emotion and its Situated Nature 31: Giovanna Colombetti: Enacting Affectivity 32: Achim Stephan: Critical Note: 3Es are Sufficient, but Don 't Forget the D - A Critical Note on Situated Affectivity Part VIII: Language And Learning 33: Mark Johnson: The Embodiment of Language 34: Michiel Van Elk and Harold Bekkering: The Embodiment of Concepts: Theoretical Perspectives and the Role of Predictive Processing 35: Ulf Liszkowski: Origins and Complexities of Infant Communication and Social Cognition 36: Marco F. H. Schmidt and Hannes Rakoczy: Developing an Understanding of Normativity 37: Hans-Johann Glock: Critical Note: Language and Learning from the 4e Perspective Part IX: Evolution and Culture 38: Louise Barrett: The Evolution of Cognition: A 4e Perspective 39: Tadeusz W. Zawidzki: Mindshaping 40: Lambros Malafouris: Bringing Things to Mind: 4Es and Material Engagement 41: Kim Sterelny: Culture and the Extended Phenotype: Cognition and Material Culture in Deep Time 42: Andreas Roepstorff and Tobias Starzak: Critical Note: Evolution of Human Cognition Part X: Applications 43: Kai Vogeley: Communication as Fundamental Paradigm for Psychopathology 44: Cameron Buckner: Scaffolding Intuitive Rationality 45: Matej Hoffmann and Rolf Pfeifer: Robots as Powerful Allies for the Study of Embodied Cognition from the Bottom Up 46: Somogy Varga: Interpersonal Judgments, Embodied Reasoning and Juridical Legitimacy 47: Amy Cook: Embodied Cognition and the Humanities 48: Barbara G. Montero: Embodied Aesthetics