Keyword: affordances

On November 28–29, scholars from philosophy, cognitive science, and anthropology will gather at the University of Parma for a two-day workshop dedicated to Habits, Tools, and Material Environments. The workshop aims to address how habits—the iterative sensorimotor interactions between human organisms and their environments—gradually sediment into tools, practices, and material structures that then reshape the […]

Workshop hosted by the Center for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp, addressing how radical embodiment unfolds within the complexities of real-world environments. The contributions explore how perception, memory, learning, and social interaction emerge through dynamic engagements with diverse “wild” contexts. The workshop aims to expand radical embodiment research into new terrains and to […]

Forthcoming in Biology and Philosophy and available as a preprint here. AbstractIn this paper, we bring together the concepts of affordance from ecologicalpsychology and function from the organizational approach to philosophy ofbiology into a single integrative framework. This integration allows us toaccount for the biological basis of the notion of affordance, offeringtheoretical tools to address […]

Published open access in Frontiers in Physiology Abstract: Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots capable of assisting people that need care are just some among the successful examples of machine intelligence. This kind of progress might entice […]