 Taking up the second trajectory mentioned above, we find studies in what has been called the pragmatic turn in second generation cognitive science (Baggio 2021). There are scholars – for example, Guido Baggio (2021), Roman Madzia (2016a, 2016b, 2017), and Ryan McVeigh (2016, 2020) – who view Mead’s philosophy as a forerunner to more contemporary physically embodied, socially embedded, action-oriented theories of social cognition and  mind.[5]  These commentators share the belief that Mead’s interconnected theories of emergence, perception, action, and mind provide fertile areas for critical engagement with contemporary studies of enactive, extended, and embodied cognition.