Whereas once the conflict within cognitive science was between connectionism and cognitive approach, today “the struggle of fashion” is from the classical and “postcognitivist” approaches to cognition. These “new” approaches to cognitive science, to which we restrict ourselves in this work, agree in rejecting, totally or partially, the classical approach, and call for the necessity to pay attention to aspects that the classical approach has not sufficiently addressed. In this paper we review critically, with the support in the literature, the various labels that refer to what we call postcognitivist approaches and some of its basic postulates through two possible readings, metaphysical and methodological. The objective of this work is not t...