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    Active inference, enactivism and the hermeneutics of social cognition
    with Micah Allen
    Synthese 195 (6): 2627-2648. 2018.
    We distinguish between three philosophical views on the neuroscience of predictive models: predictive coding, predictive processing and predictive engagement. We examine the concept of active inference under each model and then ask how this concept informs discussions of social cognition. In this context we consider Frith and Friston’s proposal for a neural hermeneutics, and we explore the alternative model of enactivist hermeneutics.
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    The Oxford handbook of the self (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
    The Oxford Handbook of the Self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that address questions in all of these areas.
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    Moral agency, self-consciousness, and practical wisdom
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (5-6): 199-223. 2007.
    This paper argues that self-consciousness and moral agency depend crucially on both embodied and social aspects of human existence, and that the capacity for practical wisdom, phronesis, is central to moral personhood. The nature of practical wisdom is elucidated by drawing on rival analyses of expertise. Although ethical expertise and practical wisdom differ importantly, they are alike in that we can acquire them only in interaction with other persons and through habituation. The analysis of mo…Read more
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    Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science
    with Peter F. Dominey, Tony J. Prescott, Jeannette Bohg, Andreas K. Engel, Tobias Heed, Matej Hoffmann, Gunther Knoblich, Wolfgang Prinz, and Andrew Schwartz
    In Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston & Danica Kragic (eds.), The Pragmatic Turn: Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, Mit Press. pp. 333-356. 2016.
    An action-oriented perspective changes the role of an individual from a passive observer to an actively engaged agent interacting in a closed loop with the world as well as with others. Cognition exists to serve action within a landscape that contains both. This chapter surveys this landscape and addresses the status of the pragmatic turn. Its potential influence on science and the study of cognition are considered (including perception, social cognition, social interaction, sensorimotor entrain…Read more
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    Delusional realities
    In Matthew R. Broome & Lisa Bortolotti (eds.), Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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    The Inordinance of Time
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 190 (4): 524-525. 2000.
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    Methodological lessons in neurophenomenology: Review of a baseline study and recommendations for research approaches
    with Patricia Bockelman and Lauren Reinerman-Jones
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7. 2013.
    Neurophenomenological (NP) methods integrate objective and subjective data in ways that retain the statistical power of established disciplines (like cognitive science) while embracing the value of first-person reports of experience. The present paper positions neurophenomenology as an approach that pulls from traditions of cognitive science but includes techniques that are challenging for cognitive science in some ways. A baseline study is reviewed for “lessons learned,” that is, the potential …Read more
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    Clear statements of both extended and enactive conceptions of cognition can be found in John Dewey and other pragmatists. In this paper I'll argue that we can find resources in the pragmatists to address two ongoing debates: in contrast to recent disagreements between proponents of extended vs enactive cognition, pragmatism supports a more integrative view—an enactive conception of extended cognition, and pragmatist views suggest ways to answer the main objections raised against extended and ena…Read more
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    Conversation is, first of all, an event, something that happens. But the concept of conversation has also been appropriated by various thinkers as a model or metaphor of hermeneutical experience, of communication, political discourse, the acquisition of knowledge, and so forth. As an event it has been analyzed within the hermeneutical tradition, from Schleiermacher to Gadamer, and in this analysis it has been tied to Romantic conceptions such as the universality of language, "linguistic heritage…Read more
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    Direct perception in the intersubjective context
    Consciousness and Cognition 17 (2): 535-543. 2008.
    This paper, in opposition to the standard theories of social cognition found in psychology and cognitive science, defends the idea that direct perception plays an important role in social cognition. The two dominant theories, theory theory and simulation theory , both posit something more than a perceptual element as necessary for our ability to understand others, i.e., to “mindread” or “mentalize.” In contrast, certain phenomenological approaches depend heavily on the concept of perception and …Read more
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    Intencionalnost i intencionalno djelovanje
    Filozofska Istrazivanja 26 (2): 339-346. 2006.
    Oni koji tvrde da je slobodna volja iluzija, u krivu su. Oni temelje svoju tvrdnju na znanstvenom dokazu koji testira pogrešnu razinu deskripcije intencionalnog djelovanja. Kod slobodne volje ne radi se o podosobnim neuronskim procesima, mišićnoj aktivaciji, ili temeljnim tjelesnim pokretima, već o kontekstualiziranim djelovanjima u sistemu koji je veći negoli što to mnogi suvremeni filozofi uma, psiholozi i neuroznanstvenici smatraju. U ovome članku opisujem vrstu intencionalnosti koja ide s vj…Read more
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    Social cognition and social robots
    Pragmatics and Cognition 15 (3): 435-453. 2007.
    Social robots are robots designed to interact with humans or with each other in ways that approximate human social interaction. It seems clear that one question relevant to the project of designing such robots concerns how humans themselves interact to achieve social understanding. If we turn to psychology, philosophy, or the cognitive sciences in general, we find two models of social cognition vying for dominance under the heading of theory of mind: theory theory and simulation theory. It is th…Read more
  •  97
    Gesture-first, but no gestures?
    with David McNeill, Bennett Bertenthal, and Jonathan Cole
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (2): 138-139. 2005.
    Although Arbib's extension of the mirror-system hypothesis neatly sidesteps one problem with the “gesture-first” theory of language origins, it overlooks the importance of gestures that occur in current-day human linguistic performance, and this lands it with another problem. We argue that, instead of gesture-first, a system of combined vocalization and gestures would have been a more natural evolutionary unit.
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    Hegel, History, and Interpretation (edited book)
    State University of New York Press. 1997.
    Extends critical discussions of Hegel into contemporary debates about the nature of interpretation and theories of philosophical hermeneutics
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    Ways of knowing the self and the other
    with Stephen Watson
    In Shaun Gallagher & Stephen Watson (eds.), Theoria Et Historia Scientiarum, Publications De L'université De Rouen.. pp. 1-25. 2004.
    Introduction to S. Gallagher and S. Watson. (2004). _Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity_ . Rouen: Presses Universitaires. Originally published in 2000 as a special issue of the online journal _Arobase: Journal des lettres et sciences humaines,_ 4 (1-2).
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    Nailing the lie: An interview with Jonathan Cole
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (2): 3-21. 2004.
    'It nails the old lie that rigorous science and a humane attitude to illness do not go together.' From review of Pride and a Daily Marathon in the TLS Jonathan Cole is, amongst other things, a clinical neurophysiologist practising at Poole Hospital in Bournemouth, England, an author of extraordinarily interesting books, and an experimental neuroscientist who conducts his experiments in some of the major laboratories in Europe and North America, and at least once while floating weightless in mid-…Read more
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    Dynamic Models of Body Schematic Processes
    In Helena De Preester & Veroniek Knockaert (eds.), Body image and body schema, John Benjamins. 2005.
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    Redrawing the Map and Resetting the Time: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
    with Francisco J. Varela
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33 (Supplement): 93-132. 2003.
    e argue that phenomenology can be of central and positive importance to the cognitive sciences, and that it can also learn from the empirical research conducted in those sciences. We discuss the project of naturalizing phenomenology and how this can be best accomplished. We provide several examples of how phenomenology and the cognitive sciences can integrate their research. Specifically, we consider issues related to embodied cognition and intersubjectivity. We provide a detailed analysis of is…Read more
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    Two problems of intersubjectivity
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 16 (6-8): 6-8. 2009.
    I propose a distinction between two closely related problems: the problem of social cognition and the problem of participatory sense-making. One problem focuses on how we understand others; the other problem focuses on how, with others, we make sense out of the world. Both understanding others and making sense out of the world involve social interaction. The importance of participatory sense-making is highlighted by reviewing some recent accounts of perception that are philosophically autistic -…Read more
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    Models of the Self (edited book)
    Thorverton UK: Imprint Academic. 1999.
    A comprehensive reader on the problem of the self as seen from the viewpoints of philosophy, developmental psychology, robotics, cognitive neuroscience,...
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    Getting interaction theory together: Integrating developmental, phenomenological, enactive, and dynamical approaches to social interaction
    with Tom Froese
    Interaction Studiesinteraction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems 13 (3): 436-468. 2012.
    We argue that progress in our scientific understanding of the ‘social mind’ is hampered by a number of unfounded assumptions. We single out the widely shared assumption that social behavior depends solely on the capacities of an individual agent. In contrast, both developmental and phenomenological studies suggest that the personal-level capacity for detached ‘social cognition’ is a secondary achievement that is dependent on more immediate processes of embodied social interaction. We draw on the…Read more
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    Is it possible to develop a discourse that describes human experience but avoids theoretical concepts such as consciousness and qualia, and do so in such a way that the difficult problems are resolved? It strikes me that Gordon Globus is attempting to do something like this. It seems an honorable project from the perspectives of both the analytic philosophy of mind and the postmodern celebration of multiple discourses. I want to suggest, however, that in his account the problems of qualia and co…Read more