Research Interests – Education – Experience – Publications
Personal Info
| Position | PhD Student |
| mirkoalexander.prokop@ehu.eus | |
| Address | UPV/EHU, Department of Philosophy, Tolosa Hiribidea 70, 20080 Donostia – San Sebastián |
Summary
I am a PhD student interested in embodied, enactive and comparative perspectives on agency. My research focuses on the nature of intentions and the role they play in human agency and social interaction. Building on insights from developmental comparative psychology and evolutionary anthropology, my guiding thought is that the role of intentions in explaining individual actions must be understood within the context of sociocultural and discursive practices. I want to better understand the process by which intentions emerge in social interaction, how it shapes the attribution of intentions to ourselves and others, and how the social constitution of intentions relates to the embodied and situated nature of practical knowledge and sensorimotor skill.
Research Interests
- Agency, intention, social Interaction, practical Knowledge
- Enactive, embodied and situated approaches in the cognitive sciences
- Comparative and developmental psychology
- Philosophy of biology
- Phenomenology
Education
[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. (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