ENACTIVISM: a new paradigm?
From neurophenomenology
and Social / Evolutionary Robotics to Distributed Cognition
OCTOBER, 6-8 2008
TORUN, POLAND
Official conference program
is
now available here and
in downloadable file (PDF 293kb)
CALL FOR PAPERS
This year's event is a third edition of interdisciplinary conference following first event „Embodied and Situated Cognition: from Phenomenology and Neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence” (2006) and second „Self, Intersubjectivity & Social Neuroscience: from Mind and Action to Society" (2007), both held in Torun.
The key topics of this year's event will include:
- enactivism as methodology of cognition research,
- enactivism: state of art,
- role of enactivism in today cognitive science, neuroscience, robotics, philosophy,
- role of action in cognition,
- connection between social cognition, action, robotics and evolution research,
- distributed cognition as part of enactivist cognitive science,
- first- and second- person methodologies in cognitive science and neuroscience,
- philosophy and cognitive science in enactivism.
Speakers (confirmed)
Open lecture: David Kirsh – Beyond Perception
Speakers: Natalie Depraz, Wlodzislaw Duch, Olivier Gapenne, Hiro Iizuka, Masami Ishihara, Jean-Luc Petit, Corrado Sinigaglia, Elzbieta Szelag, Pierre Steiner, Tom Ziemke. For more details enter »
Submission
» Registration form (*.doc).
dr Tomasz Komendzinski tkomen@uni.torun.pl
Contact:
For organizational reasons the conference has been shortened to 3 days and will end on October 8. We are sorry for any inconveniences related to the change.
For more details about accomodation, conference center and Torun city enter »
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general information > enactivism?
What is an Enactivism?
In psychology, philosophy and the cognitive sciences more generally, enactivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind and reality. It incorporates an historical perspective - in the sense that each individual's developmental trajectory shapes their understanding of reality (in form of an autopoietic system) - with the result that it can be seen, to subsume and synthesize arguments from embodied and situated cognition, to present an opposite view to symbolic cognitivism and classical connectionism.
In The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Francisco Varela claims to have "proposed using the term enactive to designate this view of knowledge, to evoke the view that what is known is brought forth, in contraposition to the more classical views of either cognitivism or connectionism." [Tree of Knowledge 1992: pg. 255].
general information > past events
Past events
Embodied and Situated Cognition:
From Phenomenology to Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence
November 16-18, 2006
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
First edition of interdisciplinary conference on conception of the embodied mind and embodied cognition, with such guest like: Shaun Gallagher, Jordan Zlatev, Natika Newton, Daniel Hutto, Giovanna Colombetti, Olaf Blanke, India Morrison, Dorothee Legrand, Matthew Ratcliffe, Richard Menary, Helena De Preester, Jonathan Cole, Tom Ziemke, Tony Chemero, Ron Chrisley and many more ...
Self, Intersubjectivity & Social Neuroscience:
From Mind and Action to Society
September 24-26, 2007
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
Second edition of interdisciplinary conference on neuroscience and social cognition, with such guest like: Marc Jeannerod, Jonathan Cole, Stephanie Carlson, Matthis Synofzik, Jessica Sommerville, Philip Zelazo, Colwyn Trevarthen, Yann Coello, Piotr Jaskowski, Catherine Reed, Corrado Sinigaglia, Daniel Hutto, Hanne DE JEAGHER, Lucina Uddin, India Morrison, Francesca Morganti, Justin H. G. Williams, Wlodzislaw Duch and many more ...
SISN - conference website
| conference - e-book (1,95Mb) 
general information > sponsors & partners
Sponsors & Partners
List of all official sponsors and partners:
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John Benjamins Publishing Company, P.O. Box 36224, NL-1020 ME AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands |
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Imprint Academic, Journal of of Consciousness Studies, PO Box 200, Exeter EX5 5YX UK |
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Imperial College Press, 57 Shelton Street Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE UK |
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World Scientific Publishing (Regional offices) |
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Oxford University Press,
Great Clarendon Street Oxford OX2 6DP UK |
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Springer Verlag, Springer Science+Business Media Deutschland GmbH, PO-Box 14302, 14197 Berlin Germany |
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Janus Head, P.O. Box 1259, Amherst, NY 14226, New York USA |
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Psychology Press, 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA, UK |
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American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI), 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209 USA |
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Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA |
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Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group, Bookpoint 130 Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon, OX14 4SB UK |
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Eurospan Group, 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8LU UK |
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Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8RU UK |
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The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 USA |
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Guilford Publications, Inc., 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 USA |
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IOS Press, Gazelle Book Services Ltd., White Cross Mills, Hightown, Lancaster LA1 4XS UK |
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Columbia University Press, 61 West Sixty-second Street, New York, NY 10023 USA |
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The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 USA |
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Institute of Psychology Press - Polish Academy of Science, 03-815 Warsaw, ul. Chodakowska 19/31 Poland |
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Vizja Press & IT Sp. z o.o., 01-029 Warszawa, ul. Dzielna 60 Poland |