CFP: Artificial by Nature

This conference might be of interest. It looks like we have another bio-philosopher like Hans Jonas to re-discover!
Cheers,
Tom
Artificial by Nature: Philosophy of Life and the Life Sciences and Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology
Invitation and call for papers for the IVth International Plessner Conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Wed. 16-Fr.18 September, 2009
http://socgeo.ruhosting.nl/plessner
Introduction
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) is one of the founders [...]

Seminar #51: Technical mediations of perceptual interactions

As warm-up to this week’s Key Issues in Sensory Augmentation Workshop we will have a special Life and Mind seminar by Charles Lenay, the Director of the Perceptual Supplementation Group in the COSTECH laboratory, University of Compiègne, France. His background is in the History and Philosophy of Science. His general interest is in the thematization [...]

A jewel from Innsbruck, 1943

I’ve come across this fantastic video of Theodor Erismann demonstrating some experiments on visual inversion. It’s incredibly funny and illuminating and makes you wish you could run experiments in this way. Translation and voice-over by J. J. Gibson.
Check out the fencing exercises…

“Are you prepared to wear these right-left reversing spectacles for several weeks without interruption? [...]

CFP: “Interpretation and sense-making”

ARCo 09 – International Conference of the Association for Cognitive Research: ‘Interpretation and sense-making’
December 9-11, 2009 – University of Rouen (France)
Conference purpose
The Association for Cognitive Research (ARCo: http://www.arco.asso.fr) is a French learned society that promotes cognitive science and cross-disciplinary research on cognition from the perspective of the humanities, the engineering sciences and the life [...]

Seminar #50: The interactivist framework

This week we will have a presentation by Jean-Charles Quinton, who is a new Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. The discussion topic will be:
The interactivist framework: Anticipation at the core of cognition
Jean-Charles Quinton
Time: 4:30-6:00pm
Date: Wednesday, 11th March
Location: Pev. 1, room 2A01
This seminar will mainly focus on presenting Mark Bickhard’s interactivist framework, with [...]