6-7 June 2019: IV SLMFCE Postgraduate Conference
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ENACTION AND ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY: OVERLAPS, TENSIONS, COMPLEMENTARITIES
This workshop aims to gather researchers in Enaction and Ecological Psychology in order to evaluate which are the complementarities, tensions, and overlaps between these two approaches.
The topics of the workshop will be divided in three main sections:
- Methodological and scientific ontology: Ecological information, sensorimotor contingencies, and affordances.
- Epistemic issues: Ecological meaning, phenomenology, and sense-making.
- The social world within the enactive and the ecological approaches.
VENUE
City: Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain).
Date: 9 & 10 July, 2019.
Venue: Ignacio María Barriola Building ( Elhuyar Square, 1), University of the Basque Country.
PROGRAM
SPEAKERS
Tony Chemero, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Tom Froese, David Jacobs, David Travieso, Jorge Ibanez-Gijon, Lorena Lobo, Harry Heft, Julian Kiverstein, Erik Rietveld, Marek McGann, Vicente Raja and Miguel Segundo.
The workshop is organized by Manuel Heras-Escribano and Ezequiel Di Paolo (IAS Research Centre for Life, Mind, and Society, EHU-UPV) and generously funded by the BBVA Foundation through the 2018 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators entitled “The philosophy of affordances: The ecological, evolutionary, and social origins of cognition [AFFORDEVOCOG]”
International Workshop: Conceptual Issues on ‘Life, Mind and Society’ in Dialogue with Alvaro Moreno
Date: 19-20 November 2018
Location: Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology (Salón de Grados) [Ibaeta Campus, Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain]
Keynote Speakers: William Bechtel (University of California San Diego), James Griesemer (University of California, Davis), Alicia Juarrero (University of Miami), Alvaro Moreno (UPV/EHU), Ana Soto (University of Tufts).
IAS-IHPST Workshop: Boundaries and Levels of Biological Organization (1-2 July 2014)
BOUNDARIES AND LEVELS OF BIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
The IAS-Research Centre for Life Mind and Society of the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV) in collaboration with the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) of the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne École Normale Supérieure and CNRS will be hosting an international workshop in Philosophy of Biology.
The workshop will discuss the notion of biological organization from a systemic- perspective. In particular it will focus on its intrinsic hierarchical dimension, and on the role organization plays in the understanding of the transition from pre-biotic to minimal living systems and of more complex forms of biological, cognitive and ecological systems.
Dates: July 1-2 2014
Venue: Room B1 – Centro Carlos Santamaria, Universidad del Pais Vasco (EHU/UPV) Campus de Guipuzkoa
Webpage: http://ias-ihpst.ias-research.net/
For more detailed information please contact the organisers Leonardo Bich and Maël Montevil.
No registration and no fees are needed for attending the workshop. Access is free to everybody in the academic community interested in the topics of the workshop. If you intend to come, please send an email to leonardo[dot]bich[at]ehu[dot]es so that we can facilitate your entrance into the building.
PROGRAM
| TUESDAY 1st of JULY | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Opening |
| Session 1 | |
| 10:15 – 11.15 | Hierarchical thinking in organicist and systems biology
Jon Umerez IAS/Universidad del País Vasco |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Coffee break and collaboration proposals |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | Levels, orders and boundaries: a look into the architecture of biological organization
Matteo Mossio IHPST/Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
| 12:40 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 2 | |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Protocellular autonomy: getting organized through the construction of open boundaries
Kepa Ruiz Mirazo IAS/Universidad del País Vasco |
| 15:30 – 15:40 | Break |
| 15:40 – 16:40 | Heredity and organization
Gaëlle Pontarotti, with commentaries by Francesca Merlin IHPST/Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
| WEDNESDAY 2nd of JULY
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| Session 3 | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Teleology as a principle
Nicole Perret ENS Paris |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Coffee break and collaboration proposals |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | Failed intentions, or why adaptive behavior is not sufficient for cognition
Xabier Barandiaran IAS/Universidad del País Vasco |
| 12:40 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session 4 | |
| 14:30 – 15: 30 | On the origin of autonomy: from chemical to biological organisation
Alvaro Moreno IAS /Universidad del Pais Vasco |
| 15.30 – 15: 40 | Break |
| 15.40 – 16 :40 | Gaïa: what was it about?
Sebastien Dutreuil IHPST/Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
| 16: 40 – 16:50 | Closing remarks |
“Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013) – 12-14.09.2013, Bergamo, Italy
Call for Papers
Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013)
12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy
Organizers:
Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo)
Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford)
Website: http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013
In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely on procedures directed to exploring life and cognition in a “synthetic” way, i.e. through modeling in artificial systems. Research on biological and cognitive processes is thus been increasingly based on implementations in “software” (simulations), “hardware” (robots) and “wetware” (chemical systems) used as scientific models of the processes in question. This scientific development is often seen as the emergence of a new general methodology, a “synthetic methodology”, slated to become a dominant force in science. This synthetic methodology poses a challenge for both science itself and the philosophy of science: to define the possibilities, the limits, and the ways of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition, and its relevance for biological, behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences.
The workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” will tackle this challenge by creating a strongly interdisciplinary forum that can formulate and address these fundamental questions. The workshop brings together pioneers of the synthetic exploration of life and cognition from different scientific domains (computer science, synthetic biology, cognitive, developmental, social robotics…), and invites them to discuss with philosophers and other specialists studying this emerging form of scientific investigation.
Invited speakers
- Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
- Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK
- Luciano Fadiga, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Stuart Kauffman, University of Calgary, Canada
- Pier Luigi Luisi, University of Rome Three, Italy
- Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
- Giulio Sandini, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
- Ricard Solé, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Call for Papers
The SMLC 2013 workshop adopts an “Open Questions” format. – This means that the SMLC 2013 call for papers contains a list of questions on the synthetic modeling of life and cognition formulated by members of the Program Committee and other selected specialists on the basis of their expertise and in accordance with the topics of the workshop.
Deadline: 30.06.2013
Complete Call for Papers: http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013/calls
Ethical, Philosophical and Political Issues of Synthetic Biology Workshop
Madrid, 11th of Jan. 2013 — program.
Second Retecog Workshop 2013: Interaction
We are glad to announce the Second official Retecog Workshop on Interaction will take place 17-18 of January 2013 at the Paraninfo Building of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Many members of IAS-Research will attend the workshop as participants, organizers or invited speakers.
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Autonomy and Individual Organisms in Biology: A Collaborative Perspective
The IAS-Research Center for Life,Mind, and Society organises a workshop on “Autonomy and Individual Biological Organisms“, to be held in San Sebastián on October, 27-28, 2012. You may find all the information about the event at https://aiob.ias-research.net/.
“Embodying Intersubjectivity Research” Summer School
The first summer school of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network TESIS: Toward an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity will take place in San Sebastián, Spain, May 14 – 18, 2012.
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“Cognition and Consciousness” Retecog Summer School 2012
The Retecog Network fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to promote the advancement of Cognitive Science in Spain. This summer school aims to offer an overview of research in Cognitive Science through the choice of an area of research which provides a clear demonstration of the potential benefits of multidisciplinary cross-fertilization. It is addressed to graduate students, or recent doctors, interested in gaining a broader view of their research topic, and benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration. Participants are expected to present their current projects, either as poster or oral presentation, and will be offered feedback and further support.
More information at: http://summerschool.retecog.net