An increasingly popular trend in the sciences of the mind is to emphasize the ways in which cognition is embodied, embedded, situated, extended, distributed, enactive, ecological, etc. This course combines lectures and seminars to explore advanced topics at the cutting edge of "embodied cognitive science."
This semester (Summer 2024) in Advanced Topics in Embodied Cognitive Science we will study how the concepts, tools and methods of embodied cognitive science can be applied for making sense of science, scientific knowledge and scientific practices. We will focus on topics such as: extended views of mind and the distribution of epistemic labor; situated views of cognition and the role of material engagement and affordances in scientific creativity, imagination and problem solving; and the potential of enactive and ecological approaches to inform a post-representationalist outlook not only about cognition/mind but also about scientific knowledge.
Prior knowledge about embodied cognitive science and philosophy of science will be helpful, but not required. Resources will be made available for students who need help with the basics of embodied cognition, enactivism and ecological psychology.
- Trainer/in: Guilherme Sanches Sanchez