Marie Curie Initial Training Network Ph.D. Fellowship Positions University of Hertfordshire, UK ‘TESIS’ (Towards and Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity)
The University of Hertfordshire is inviting applications for 2 Ph.D. fellowship positions in philosophy to join 15 other bright, highly motivated graduate students and postdocs at the network universities in Europe, to do interdisciplinary empirical and conceptual research on topics that involve intersubjectivity and social cognition.
TESIS – Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity – is an integrated ITN programme to investigate the foundations of human sociality. It integrates the complementary expertise of 13 European research institutes, clinical centres and private enterprises from the fields of philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology and psychiatry/psychosomatics to advance our understanding of human intersubjectivity. Its major goal is to replace the static, individualistic paradigm still dominant in social cognition research with a comprehensive framework for embodied intersubjectivity applicable in the biomedical sciences, the humanities, and society in general. Thus, it intends to show how we become human by embodied interaction with others from early infancy.
Starting date for the positions is 01 October 2011.
The TESIS research group at Hertfordshire will investigate (1) enactive and extended cognition in social institutional contexts and (2) embodied approaches to cultural expression and intersubjective experience.
The TESIS program offers rich opportunities for interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical research. The fellows will participate actively in an international training network with expertise in the investigation of intersubjectivity and embodiment. This network is funded by the European Commission FP7 and provides ideal research and training opportunities during a three-year training programme consisting of high impact workshops, summer schools and conferences.
Please make your application online at http://www.herts.ac.uk/jobs/ (under Research Vacancies). Closing date for applications: May 31, 2011.
International applications welcome. Note: Candidates should have a
good command of English. To encourage mobility, successful candidates may
have spent at most 12 out of the last 36 months in the UK before
appointment. Qualified women are especially encouraged to apply.
Informal inquiries to
Professor Shaun Gallagher: gallaghr33@gmail.com or
Professor Daniel D. Hutto: d.d.hutto@herts.ac.uk
Friday, May 6, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Network for Research on the Senses
Via the Mind Network blog ...
University of Toronto
The Network for Research on the Senses invites applications for one Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Applicants should have a PhD in philosophy, and research expertise in the philosophy of perception from a relevant scientific perspective. The Fellowship is open to citizens of all countries.
The Network for Research on the Senses is a partnership of philosophers of perception at Toronto (Mohan Matthen), London (Barry Smith), Harvard (Susanna Siegel), Glasgow (Fiona Macpherson), and MIT (Alex Byrne), funded by a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Over the next two academic years, the Network will conduct six interdisciplinary workshops on multimodal perception, relations between perception and cognition, the individuation of the senses, and other related topics. Teams of graduate students from the five institutions will report on these workshops; their summaries will form the basis of a web-forum to which all qualified researchers will have access.
The Fellow will have duties relating to the organization of the workshops, the supervision of graduate participation, and the editing of the web forum. This will involve travel to the workshops, and interaction with researchers in philosophy and other disciplines at the five partner institutions and elsewhere. The Fellow will thus gain valuable experience in the practice and administration of collaborative research activity. S/he will be expected to conduct an active program of research, and will have extensive access to the investigators named above and others at the partner institutions.
The Fellowship will be tenable for a two-year period in the Network Centre for Research in the Senses at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, beginning July or August 2011. The fellowship stipend is C$37,000 per year, with a $2,000 per annum personal research allowance.
Candidates who will receive their PhD degree by December 2011 are eligible to apply; however, they must submit a letter confirming their completion.
Applicants must submit the following materials in electronic form by June 1, 2011:
Carla DeMarco at car.demarco@utoronto.ca. Please put “Network PDF Application” in the subject line of the application.
See: http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/utm/continuously-posted-notices/post-doc%20ad.doc/view for more details
The Network for Research on the Senses invites applications for one Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Applicants should have a PhD in philosophy, and research expertise in the philosophy of perception from a relevant scientific perspective. The Fellowship is open to citizens of all countries.
The Network for Research on the Senses is a partnership of philosophers of perception at Toronto (Mohan Matthen), London (Barry Smith), Harvard (Susanna Siegel), Glasgow (Fiona Macpherson), and MIT (Alex Byrne), funded by a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Over the next two academic years, the Network will conduct six interdisciplinary workshops on multimodal perception, relations between perception and cognition, the individuation of the senses, and other related topics. Teams of graduate students from the five institutions will report on these workshops; their summaries will form the basis of a web-forum to which all qualified researchers will have access.
The Fellow will have duties relating to the organization of the workshops, the supervision of graduate participation, and the editing of the web forum. This will involve travel to the workshops, and interaction with researchers in philosophy and other disciplines at the five partner institutions and elsewhere. The Fellow will thus gain valuable experience in the practice and administration of collaborative research activity. S/he will be expected to conduct an active program of research, and will have extensive access to the investigators named above and others at the partner institutions.
The Fellowship will be tenable for a two-year period in the Network Centre for Research in the Senses at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, beginning July or August 2011. The fellowship stipend is C$37,000 per year, with a $2,000 per annum personal research allowance.
Candidates who will receive their PhD degree by December 2011 are eligible to apply; however, they must submit a letter confirming their completion.
Applicants must submit the following materials in electronic form by June 1, 2011:
- A letter of application, including a statement of current research interests (outlining the research to be undertaken during the term of fellowship).
- Curriculum vitae.
- The names of three referees.
- A writing sample, which may be published work, an extract from their dissertation, or a draft of work in progress (not to exceed 25 pages).
Carla DeMarco at car.demarco@utoronto.ca. Please put “Network PDF Application” in the subject line of the application.
See: http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/utm/continuously-posted-notices/post-doc%20ad.doc/view for more details
Philosophy and the Brain: Computation, Realization, Representation
This workshop at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in a couple of weeks will be very nice.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Congrats, Richard!
Winner of a UoW Vice-Chancellor's Award.
Now if we can only persuade him to channel all that work for the good guys...
Now if we can only persuade him to channel all that work for the good guys...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Extended Cognition Workshop -- Amsterdam, June 27th-28th 2011
To mark the end of Catarina Dutilh Novaes’ VENI-project on formal languages and
the new appointment of Julian Kiverstein at the philosophy department of the
University of Amsterdam, a workshop on extended cognition will take place in
Amsterdam on June 27th--28th (afternoon on the 27th, whole day on the 28th), in
the Oudemanhuispoort building of the university. The focus will be on
conceptions of extended cognition in the spirit of ‘second-wave EM’ (Sutton) or
‘cognitive integration’ (Menary).
Invited speakers:
* Richard Menary (Wollongong), TBA
* Julian Kiverstein (Edinburgh/Amsterdam), TBA
* Helen de Cruz (Leuven), "Extended cognition in mathematical practice: The
case of Chinese algebra"
* John Protevi (LSU), "Extended Cognition, extended responsibility: cyborgs in
modern warfare"
* Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Amsterdam), "Formal languages in logic and extended
cognition"
Contributed papers:
* Bryce Huebner (Georgetown), "Responsibility for socially scaffolded minds"
* Joel Krueger (Copenhagen), "Extended cognition and shared emotions"
* Erik Myin (Antwerp), "Bound by parity?"
* Jurgis Skilters et al. (Latvia), "Extended selves in distributed social
networks"
* Mirko Farina (Edinburg), "Finding my Mind: a Case for Extended Cognition"
REGISTRATION: The workshop is open to all, but please register by sending an
email to cdutilhnovaes [youknowwhat] yahoo.com no later than June 13th (a small
registration fee of EUR 10 will be charged on the spot to cover for catering).
For further inquiries, contact Catarina Dutilh Novaes at cdutilhnovaes
[youknowwhat] yahoo.com
the new appointment of Julian Kiverstein at the philosophy department of the
University of Amsterdam, a workshop on extended cognition will take place in
Amsterdam on June 27th--28th (afternoon on the 27th, whole day on the 28th), in
the Oudemanhuispoort building of the university. The focus will be on
conceptions of extended cognition in the spirit of ‘second-wave EM’ (Sutton) or
‘cognitive integration’ (Menary).
Invited speakers:
* Richard Menary (Wollongong), TBA
* Julian Kiverstein (Edinburgh/Amsterdam), TBA
* Helen de Cruz (Leuven), "Extended cognition in mathematical practice: The
case of Chinese algebra"
* John Protevi (LSU), "Extended Cognition, extended responsibility: cyborgs in
modern warfare"
* Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Amsterdam), "Formal languages in logic and extended
cognition"
Contributed papers:
* Bryce Huebner (Georgetown), "Responsibility for socially scaffolded minds"
* Joel Krueger (Copenhagen), "Extended cognition and shared emotions"
* Erik Myin (Antwerp), "Bound by parity?"
* Jurgis Skilters et al. (Latvia), "Extended selves in distributed social
networks"
* Mirko Farina (Edinburg), "Finding my Mind: a Case for Extended Cognition"
REGISTRATION: The workshop is open to all, but please register by sending an
email to cdutilhnovaes [youknowwhat] yahoo.com no later than June 13th (a small
registration fee of EUR 10 will be charged on the spot to cover for catering).
For further inquiries, contact Catarina Dutilh Novaes at cdutilhnovaes
[youknowwhat] yahoo.com
Monday, April 18, 2011
Bruno's Review of Perception, Action, and Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems
FWIW, I recommend the book. Bruno's review is here.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Computation in Action by Erik Myin
COGNITION IN ACTION LECTURE SERIES
"Computation in Action "
by Erik Myin
(Universiteit Antwerpen)
Monday April 18, at 4.30 pm
Room 104
University of Milan, via Festa del Perdono 3
Abstract
In this talk, I contrast the idea of computation as an overt activity of a person, as when someone calculates on a blackboard, with the idea of computation as inner activity that can be carried out by neurons or neural networks. I argue that the active notion is fundamental, both in a logical and a historical sense. That is, Turing’s concept of mechanical computation was derived from the idea of active computation, and the latter remains necessary to make sense of the former. It follows from all this, so I will argue, that the concept of inner computation, as allegedly carried out by neurons or neural networks, has a much more restricted range of application than usually assumed. Then I turn to the question whether the notion of active computation can be applied beyond its paradigmatic context or norm-bound symbol manipulation, to perception. Can persons be said to compute three-dimensional depth by moving their eyes, heads and bodies? Finally, I address the question whether and in what sense overt computational activity whether can be ‘internalized’, for example when a person performs mental arithmetic.
More info: http://neurophilosophy.unimi.it/
Corrado Sinigaglia
Department of Philosophy
University of Milan
via Festa del Perdono 7
20122 Milano - Italy
e-mail corrado.sinigag...@unimi.it
http://dipartimento.filosofia.unimi.it/index.php/corrado-sinigaglia/
http://neurophilosophy.unimi.it
http://moregeometrico.unimi.it
"Computation in Action "
by Erik Myin
(Universiteit Antwerpen)
Monday April 18, at 4.30 pm
Room 104
University of Milan, via Festa del Perdono 3
Abstract
In this talk, I contrast the idea of computation as an overt activity of a person, as when someone calculates on a blackboard, with the idea of computation as inner activity that can be carried out by neurons or neural networks. I argue that the active notion is fundamental, both in a logical and a historical sense. That is, Turing’s concept of mechanical computation was derived from the idea of active computation, and the latter remains necessary to make sense of the former. It follows from all this, so I will argue, that the concept of inner computation, as allegedly carried out by neurons or neural networks, has a much more restricted range of application than usually assumed. Then I turn to the question whether the notion of active computation can be applied beyond its paradigmatic context or norm-bound symbol manipulation, to perception. Can persons be said to compute three-dimensional depth by moving their eyes, heads and bodies? Finally, I address the question whether and in what sense overt computational activity whether can be ‘internalized’, for example when a person performs mental arithmetic.
More info: http://neurophilosophy.unimi.it/
Corrado Sinigaglia
Department of Philosophy
University of Milan
via Festa del Perdono 7
20122 Milano - Italy
e-mail corrado.sinigag...@unimi.it
http://dipartimento.filosofia.unimi.it/index.php/corrado-sinigaglia/
http://neurophilosophy.unimi.it
http://moregeometrico.unimi.it
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