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“Trends in Social Cognition and Neurophenomenology” (video report)

A video report from the symposium: “Tendencias actuales en cognición social y neurofenomenología” Symposium organizers: Prof. Otto Dörr and Dr. Leonor Irarrázaval Centro de Estudios de Fenomenología y Psiquiatría Universidad Diego Postales, Santiago de Chile, 24 October 2014 Symposium Programme

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How to understand our interactions with social institutions?

Will cognitivist, functionalist theories of mind be able to capture how we interact with institutions? In this paper, I argue that they cannot. I propose that functionalism is inherently restricted to dealing with rule-based, hierarchical structures, and cannot deal with the democratic, fluid, embodied, and horizontal aspects of society. The paper puts Carol Gilligan’s work in […]

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Talk at the opening of the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus 24/08

The Interacting Minds project at Aarhus University is being turned into the Interacting Minds Centre, a new interdisciplinary initiative (2012-2016). This will be celebrated on the 24th of August with a workshop. Other speakers: Günther Knoblich, Natalie Sebanz, Jakob Hohwy, Stefan Beck, David Dreyer Lassen, Dan Zahavi. I will talk about the Interactive Brain Hypothesis.

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The Interactive Brain Hypothesis

A new paper is now available exploring the implications of participatory sense-making for social neuroscience. The Interactive Brain Hypothesis Ezequiel Di Paolo & Hanne De Jaegher Abstract. Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific studies involving actual interactions, the […]

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Carol Gilligan: “To care is to be present, it’s to have a voice, it’s to be in relationship.”

This is so important, I have to share it. Below is a video of Carol Gilligan, giving a talk at MIT about relationship, love, and voice in developmental psychology, ethics, and politics. Title: “Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance” (April 24, 2009). You can also find it here: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/729 http://mitworld.mit.edu/flash/player/Main.swf?host=cp58255.edgefcs.net&flv=mitw-01214-dalai-lama-center-roots-ethical-resistance-gilligan-24apr2009&preview=http://mitworld.mit.edu//uploads/mitwstill01214dalailamacenterrootsethicalresistancegilligan24apr2009.jpg […]

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Enaction versus representation – an opinion piece

(Published as: De Jaegher, H. (2010). Enaction versus representation: an opinion piece. In T. Fuchs, H. Sattel & P. Henningsen (Eds.), The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders. Stuttgart: Schattauer.) “The existence of other people is a difficulty and an outrage for objective thought” (Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, p. 349) Current science of intersubjectivity (meaningful […]

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Review of Vasu Reddy’s book How Infants Know Minds

Not a single story about intersubjectivity Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie talks about the danger of a single story (see also the video below).[i] If all you ever heard about Africa concerned poverty, want and misery, how could you imagine there to be creative, witty, educated and self-assured Africans with something to say? Perhaps it would […]