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    Radical Enactive Cognition challenges teleosemantic representationalism while proposing a naturalistic, content-free account of basic intentionality – “Ur-intentionality” – based solely on teleofunctional resources such as information-as-covariance and natural selection, a view known as Teleosemiotics. This paper argues that this appropriation is insufficient to ground content-free intentionality. Two problems for functional information-as-covariance are identified: the Determinacy Problem and t…Read more
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    Relevanz und Kontext
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 131 (1): 8-36. 2024.
    Der folgende Aufsatz zielt darauf ab, Heideggers späte Sprachphänomenologie als eine Situationsontologie anzuerkennen. Es wird gezeigt, dass dieser Ansatz durch ein bisher unbeachtetes Relevanzproblem motiviert ist, das über das traditionelle Rahmenproblem hinausgeht. Das Relevanzproblem wird eingeführt und als ein neuartiger Schlüssel zum Verständnis von Heideggers Konzept der Sprache als „Zeigen“ eines involvierenden Kontexts vorgestellt. Es wird dabei dargelegt, wie sowohl repräsentationale a…Read more
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    This introductory talk focuses on Heidegger’s late work, especially his 1959 collection of essays Unterwegs zur Sprache – On the way to language. My thesis is the following: Heidegger's late work marks a general shift from a metaphysical, i.e. a total, definite and centre-oriented description of the world, which is still present in Sein und Zeit, to a strictly situational ontology characterized by its openness, ambiguity and absence of centre. This constellation of our life-world is language, …Read more
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    Presented at the European Conference for Cognitive Science in Bochum, Sept. 2019. I synthesize some ideas I take to be promising with regard to a criterion for mental representations in animals. I sketch constitutive conditions for having a depicting perspective on the environment instead of merely reacting successfully to it. Perception, so my argument, is the key to understand the essence of mind in its basic form and beyond.(© Adrian Wieczorek)
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    Das Paradigma der mentalen Repräsentation bestimmt maßgeblich das Verständnis des Geistes in Philosophie, Kognitionswissenschaften und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Dabei wird davon ausgegangen, dass ein Merkmal des Mentalen darin liegt, eine innere Darstellung oder ein Modell der Welt zu sein. Doch gerade durch die inflationäre Verwendung des Paradigmas bleiben wesentliche Fragen unterbelichtet: Wie soll die Rolle von Repräsentation verstanden werden und unter welchen natürlichen Bedingungen realisi…Read more
  • Presented at the international conference "Green Intelligence? - Debating Plant Cognition" in Basle, Switzerland on October 23th 2021. A critical reply to Marc Artiga, Communication and Deception in Plants. Objecting to Artiga's arguments in favor of Plant Cognitivism, I try to show why deception does not imply cognitive or representational (contentful) states. Sensory detectors or communication channels in plants, simpler animals or artificial sensory systems do not need to display a perspectiv…Read more
  • Presented at the international conference "Language, Languages and Post-Cognitivism" in Venice, 15 July 2022. In my talk, I present an original interpretation of the late Heidegger as a genuine ontology of situatedness. I start out by showing the (concealed) early "heideggerian" roots of the current "4E"-paradigm in philosophy of mind and cognitive science with regard to world-disclosure and language. In the main part of my talk, I try to demonstrate how enactivism is too action-centered to adeq…Read more