New paper (2025): Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back

19 November 2025

New paper (2025): Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back

Abstract. This paper examines the relation between embodiment and sociality within the enactive approach, highlighting the continuity between biological autonomy and social normativity. The central claim is that, while enactivism offers the conceptual resources to address the complexity of social cognition, doing so requires the integration of dialectical tools into the theory of the embodied […]

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Workshop: HABITS, TOOLS, and MATERIAL ENVIRONMENTS

14 November 2025

Workshop: HABITS, TOOLS, and MATERIAL ENVIRONMENTS

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 […]

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