Embodied Cognition Seminar Series
Addressing internal and external factors that play a role in the development of cognitive capacities.
The Fall 2023 Cognitive Science Seminar is on Embodied Cognition. Dr. Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, will lead this seminar series. This semester’s Cognitive Science Seminar is presented by the Institute and Intelligent Systems in conjunction with the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy. This seminar series will bring in stellar external speakers to participate, and nine of the twelve speakers will be coming to Memphis to speak in-person. There will be an option to attend the public lectures remotely – do check the website for further information.
All sessions will take place on Wednesdays, 4 p.m. in FIT 405.
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| August 30 | Louise Barrett (Psychology. U. Lethbridge) | Beyond the Brain |
| September 6 | Detlef H. Heck (Neurology, U Minnesota Medical School) | Bodily Constraints on Perception |
| September 13 | Art Glenberg (Psychology, Arizona State) | Embodied Cognition in Education |
| September 20 | Mark Johnson (Philosophy, U Oregon) | Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason |
| September 27 | David Kirsh (CogSci, UC-San Diego) | Epistemic Actions |
| October 4 | Michael Wheeler (Philosophy, Stirling U, Scotland) | Extended Cognition |
| October 11 | Anthony Chemero (Psychology/Philosophy, U Cincinnati) | Ecological Psychology |
| October 18 | Karl Friston (Neuroscience, UCL London) | Predictive Processing and the Free Energy Principle |
| October 25 | Larry Shapiro (Philosophy, U Wisconsin) | Conceptions of Embodiment |
| November 1 | Karenleigh A. Overmann (Anthropology and Cognitive Archaeology, U Colorado) | Reading and Writing: Extended Cognitive States? |
| November 8 | Takashi Ikegami (AI, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan) | Embodied Robotics |
| November 15 | Ezequiel Di Paulo (Computer Science, U of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain) | Enactivism and Autopoiesis |
For more information on this series, contact Dr. Alistair Windsor, Director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Associate Professor of Mathematics, at awindsor@memphis.edu.