K&C Reading Seminars "Foundations for a Theory of Embodied Mind"

  • Date:

    14 NOVEMBER 2023
    -
    24 APRIL 2024
     from 17:00 to 19:00

  • Event location: In presence and online event

  • Type: K&C Reading Seminars

Highlights

The K&C Reading Seminars, organized by Ph.D students and Post-Doc Researchers, are research meetings based on reading and discussing classics in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. This year, the series will focus on two milestones for the embodied, enactive and phenomenological turn in cognitive science: the 1991 book "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience" by F. Varela, E. Thompson, and E. Rosch (Italian translation to be released by Astrolabio Ubaldini in 2023) and the 2008 book "The Phenomenological Mind" by S. Gallagher and D. Zahavi (Italian translation by Raffello Cortina Editore, 2010).

During each session, a scholar will introduce the day's thematic content, providing a personalized reinterpretation while articulating their own insights on the subject matter. This will be followed by a rigorous discussion centered around the scrutiny of the book's chapters

Program: 

Part I – The embodied mind

1. Introduction and "The Departing ground" (ch.1-2) 
14/11/2023, h.17.00-18.30. Aula Mondolfo - Via Zamboni 38, Bologna

2. "Varieties of Cognitivism" (ch.. 3-4)
29/11/2023, h.17.00-18.30. Aula Mondolfo - Via Zamboni 38, Bologna

3. "Varieties of Emergence" (ch. 5-6)
19/12/2023, h.17.00-18.30. Sala Rossa, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

4. "Step to a Middle Way" (ch. 7-8-9)
17/01/2024, h.17.00-18.30. Aula Mondolfo - Via Zamboni 38, Bologna

5. "World Without Ground" (ch. 10-11)
14/02/2024, h.17.00-18.30. Aula Mondolfo - Via Zamboni 38, Bologna

Part II – The phenomenological mind

6. "Introduction and methodology" (ch.1-2)
28/02/2024, h.17.00-18.30. Aula Mondolfo - Via Zamboni 38, Bologna

7. "Time and Consciousness" (ch.3-4)
13/03/2024, h.17.00-18.30. Sala Rossa, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

8. "Perception and Intentionality" (ch. 5-6)
27/03/2024, h.17.00-18.30. Aula Mondolfo - Via Zamboni 38, Bologna

9. "Embodiment and Agency" (ch. 7-8)
10/04/2024, h.17.00-18.30. Aula Mondolfo - Via Zamboni 38, Bologna

10. "Self and Others" (ch. 9-10)
24/04/2024, h.17.00-18.30. Sala Rossa - Via Azzo Gardino 23,  Bologna