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27Situated anticipationSynthese 198 (1): 349-371. 2018.In cognitive science, long-term anticipation, such as when planning to do something next year, is typically seen as a form of ‘higher’ cognition, requiring a different account than the more basic activities that can be understood in terms of responsiveness to ‘affordances,’ i.e. to possibilities for action. Starting from architects that anticipate the possibility to make an architectural installation over the course of many months, in this paper we develop a process-based account of affordances …Read more
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25Trusted strangers: social affordances for social cohesionPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 18 (1): 299-316. 2019.How could the paradigm shift towards enactive embodied cognitive science have implications for society and politics? Translating insights form enactive embodied cognitive science into ways of dealing with real-life issues is an important challenge. This paper focuses of the urgent societal issue of social cohesion, which is crucial in our increasingly segregated and polarized Western societies. We use Rietveld’s philosophical Skilled Intentionality Framework and work by the multidisciplinary stu…Read more
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25A Call for Strategic InterventionsIn Ole Bouman, Anneke Abhelakh, Mieke Dings & Martine Zoeteman (eds.), Architecture of Consequence: Dutch Designs on the Future, Nai Publishers. 2009.Given the contemporary complexity of cities, landscape and society, urgent social tasks call for an integral, multidisciplinary approach. Rietveld Landscape’s strategic interventions focus and use the forces of existing developments and processes. This design method creates new opportunities for landscape, architecture, the public domain, ecology, recreation and economic activity.
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24The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-BeingSage Publications: Emotion Review 14 (1): 15-30. 2021.Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 15-30, January 2022. We offer an account of mental health and well-being using the predictive processing framework. According to this framework, the difference between mental health and psychopathology can be located in the goodness of the predictive model as a regulator of action. What is crucial for avoiding the rigid patterns of thinking, feeling and acting associated with psychopathology is the regulation of action based on the valence of affective st…Read more
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24The Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability: Why Disability Does Not Entail Pathological EmbodimentFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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24The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-BeingEmotion Review 14 (1): 15-30. 2021.Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 15-30, January 2022. We offer an account of mental health and well-being using the predictive processing framework. According to this framework, the difference between mental health and psychopathology can be located in the goodness of the predictive model as a regulator of action. What is crucial for avoiding the rigid patterns of thinking, feeling and acting associated with psychopathology is the regulation of action based on the valence of affective st…Read more
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23Could Closed-Loop DBS Enhance a Person's Feeling of Being Free?American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (2): 86-87. 2017.
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21‘Deep brain stimulation is no ON/OFF-switch’: an ethnography of clinical expertise in psychiatric practicePhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (1): 129-148. 2021.Despite technological innovations, clinical expertise remains the cornerstone of psychiatry. A clinical expert does not only have general textbook knowledge, but is sensitive to what is demanded for the individual patient in a particular situation. A method that can do justice to the subjective and situation-specific nature of clinical expertise is ethnography. Effective deep brain stimulation (DBS) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involves an interpretive, evaluative process of optimizin…Read more
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19Effective Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Requires Clinical ExpertiseFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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17Stimulating Good Practice: What an EEC Approach Could Actually Mean for DBS PracticeAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 5 (4): 46-48. 2014.
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Gesitueerde normativiteit: Van Wittgenstein naar neurofenomenologieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 98 (1). 2006.
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Alledaags handelen zonder na te denkenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 102 (4). 2010.
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