Research Interests – Education – Experience – Publications
Personal info
| Position | Juan de la Cierva-Formación Research Fellow |
| herasescribano@gmail.com | |
| Website | https://ehu.academia.edu/ManuelHerasEscribano |
| Phone | |
| Address | EHU/UPV, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Avenida de Tolosa 70, 20080 Donostia – San Sebastián |
Summary
Research interests
- Affordances
- Ecological Psychology
- Enactivism
- Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Mind
- Pragmatism
- Naturalism
- Evolution of cognition
- Embodiment
- Situated Cognition
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Universidad de Granada, 2015
M.Sc. Neurosciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2012
M. A. Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2010
B. A. Philosophy, Universidad de Granada, 2009
Experience
FPI Research Fellow, Universidad de Granada, 2011-2015
Contrato Puente Research Fellow, Universidad de Granada, 2016
Fondecyt Postdoctorado Fellow, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2017-2018
Publications
- Heras-Escribano, M. (2020). “The Evolutionary Role of Affordances: Ecological Psychology, Niche Construction, and Natural Selection”. Biology & Philosophy, 35 (30). DOI: 10.1007/s10539-020-09747-1
- Heras-Escribano, M. & Calvo, P. (2019). “The philosophy of plant neurobiology”, in J. Symons, S. Robins, & P. Calvo (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology (2nd Edition). London: Routledge: 529-548.
- Bedia, M. G., Heras-Escribano, M., Cajal, D., Aguilera, M., Barandiaran, X. E., (2019) “Towards modelling social habits: an organismically inspired evolutionary robotics approach“, in Harold Fellermann, Jaume Bacardit, Ángel Goñi-Moreno, and Rudolf M Füchslin (Eds.). ALIFE 2019: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press : 341-348.
- Aguilera, M., Arandia-Romero, I. & Heras-Escribano, M. (2019). “Quantifying affordances through information theory“, in Harold Fellermann, Jaume Bacardit, Ángel Goñi-Moreno, and Rudolf M Füchslin (Eds.). ALIFE 2019: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press: 32-39.
- Pérez-Navarro, E., Fernández-Castro, V., González de Prado, J. & Heras-Escribano, M. (accepted). “Not expressivist enough: Normative disagreement about belief attribution.” Res Philosophica.
- Segundo-Ortin, M., Heras-Escribano, M., & Raja, V. (2019). “Ecological psychology is radical enough. A reply to radical enactivists”. Philosophical Psychology, 32 (7).
- Fernández Castro, V. & Heras-Escribano, M. (2019). “Social Cognition: A normative approach“. Acta Analytica, 35: 75-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-019-00388-y
- Heras-Escribano, M. (2019). “Pragmatism, enactivism, and ecological psychology. Towards a unified approach to post-cognitivism“. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019- 02111-1.
- Heras-Escribano, M. (2019). The Philosophy of Affordances. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Lobo, L., Heras-Escribano, M. & Travieso, D. (2018). “The history and philosophy of ecological psychology”. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2228.
- Heras-Escribano, M. & De Jesus, P. (2018) “Biosemiotics, the extended synthesis, and ecological information: Making sense of the organism-environment relation at the cognitive level”. Biosemiotics, 11(2): 245-262.
- Heras-Escribano, M. & Pinedo-García, M. (2018). “Naturalism, non-factualism, and normative situated behavior”. South African Journal of Philosophy, 37(1), 80-98.
- Heras-Escribano, M. & Pinedo-García, M. (2018). “Affordances and landscapes: Overcoming the nature-culture dichotomy through niche construction theory”. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2294.
- Heras-Escribano, M. (2017). “Phenomenology. An Introduction, de Stephan Kaufer y Anthony Chemero”. Teorema, 36(3), 212-216.
- Heras-Escribano, M. (2017). “Non-factualist dispositionalism”. Philosophia. Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, 45(2): 607-629.
- Heras-Escribano, M. (2016). “Embracing the environment: Ecological answers for enactive problems”. Constructivist Foundations, 11 (2): 309-312.
- Heras-Escribano, M. & Pinedo, M. (2016). “Are affordances normative?”. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 15 (4): 565-589.
- Heras-Escribano, M., Noble, J., & Pinedo, M. (2015). “Enactivism, action and normativity: a Wittgensteinian analysis”. Adaptive Behavior, 23 (1): 20-33.
- Heras Escribano, M. (2014) “Razón y experiencia: El debate McDowell-Dreyfus”. Análisis Filosófico, 34 (2): 203-227.