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Call for Abstracts
International Conference:
 
PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS OF SITUATED AGENCY
 
University of Oulu (Finland), June 5-8, 2023
 
The Philosophy and Mathematics of Situated Agency conference aims to bring together thinkers in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, mathematics, and robotics. The aim of our conference is to take steps towards understanding what beingembedded or situatedness means from an interdisciplinary perspective.
 
4E-approaches to the mind refer to basic concepts like affordance and attunement, but the conceptual and metaphysical foundations of these notions still rest unclear. Despite its pivotal position and inflationary use in the 4E-explanatory paradigm, it is still left unanalyzed what “environment”, “context” or “situation” clearly mean, compared to the attention devoted to the other “E” notions. For example, how can natural settings be affording, involving and invitational? How is agency shaped by the situation and how does it contribute? How are contexts structured to separate the relevant from the irrelevant? These and other philosophical questions are addressed.
 
Theoretical computer science and mathematical logic could be seen as foundational for classical cognitivism. What about mathematical foundation for Enactivism and Situated Cognition? This conference aims to bring together attempts to mathematically approach cognition within the 4E- paradigm. One framework has been developed recently which reformulates information spaces in robotics as a model of sensorimotor interactions and studies how more interesting cognitive phenomena can in principle emerge from this. This paradigm connects naturally to other branches of mathematical modelling such as the proposed dynamical systems perspective.
 
The conference invites contributions that engage with these issues and related topics.
 
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
 
Antonio Bicchi
 
Inês Hipólito
 
Daniel D. Hutto
 
Julian Kiverstein
 
Steven M. LaValle
 
Call for Abstracts:
 
An extended abstract of approximately 250-500 words (excluding references) should be prepared for blind review and include a cover page with full name, affiliation, contact information and short professional bio.
 
Since graduate and postgraduates are encouraged to contribute, please indicate explicitly in which format your submission can be presented (talk and/or poster).
 
Please indicate the title of your abstract in the mail’s subject.
 
Please send your submission to: situated.agency @ gmail.com [Remove space]
 
Deadline for submission: March 15, 2023
 
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2023
 


 
For further information, please feel free to contact us: situated.agency @ gmail.com [Remove space]
 
 
 
Conference Organizers
 
Kalle Timperi (University of Oulu)
 
Vadim Weinstein (University of Oulu)
 
Adrian Wieczorek (LMU Munich)
 
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