Mirko Prokop

Research Interests – Education – Experience – Publications

Personal Info

PositionPhD Student
Emailmirkoalexander.prokop@ehu.eus
AddressUPV/EHU, Department of Philosophy, Tolosa Hiribidea 70, 20080 Donostia – San Sebastián

Summary

I am a PhD student interested in embodied and comparative perspectives on agency and language. My research focuses on the role of intentions and norms in social interaction and communication. I am especially interested in the embodied foundations of communicative intentions and their role in language evolution and cognitive development. In my PhD, I aim to spell out in more detail how embodied norms and sensorimotor skills shape our understanding of others’ (communicative) intentions. To this end, I draw on empirical work in developmental and comparative psychology as well as philosophical perspectives from both the analytic and continental tradition.

Research Interests

  • Agency, intention and communication
  • Language evolution and cognitive development
  • Embodied, enactive and situated approaches in cognitive science
  • Comparative and developmental psychology
  • Phenomenology
  • Pragmatics

Education

[01/2026 – 03/2026] Research Stay, The Communicative Mind Project, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick

[10/2024 – 02/2025] Research Stay, Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

[2020 – 2022] Master of Philosophy (MPhil), St Andrews and Stirling Graduate Programme, University of St Andrews/University of Stirling

[2016 – 2020] B. A. Philosophy (Minor Psychology), University of Hamburg

Publications

Prokop, M. and Barandiaran, X. E. (2026). Sensorimotor Norms and Social Norms: A Pluralistic Proposal. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-026-00805-3

Prokop, M. (2022). Hans Jonas and the phenomenological continuity of life and mind. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09863-1

Prokop, M. (2022). Productive being: The continuity between life and action. MPhil Dissertation. Available at St Andrews Research Repository: https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/321