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Workshop Enactivism, Language, Mathematics
12 June 2017 - 13 June 2017
Workshop “Getting real about words and numbers”
Dates: June 12-13, 2017
Venue: Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
In recent years, the interest in embodied and enactive theories of cognition has been growing. Both in cognitive science and in the philosophy of mind, the dominant representational paradigm has been challenged by putting forward embodied and enactive explanations for various cognitive capacities such as perception, memory and imagination. However, while there is some consensus that embodied and enactive non-representational approaches to basic cognitive capacities are a viable option, there is more skepticism about the capacity of embodied and enactive theories to account for more advanced cognitive capacities.
This workshop will focus on embodied and enactive approaches to symbolic activities, in particular language and mathematics. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on linguistic and mathematical cognition in different traditions that are consonant or in explicit contrast with the enactive and embodied approaches to cognition.
The invited speakers are: Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (University of Hertfordshire), Hanne De Jaegher (University of the Basque Country) and José Ferreirós (University of Sevilla).
There will be room for a number of contributed talks addressing questions concerning linguistic and mathematical cognitive capabilities. We welcome contributions that address relevant topics either from an enactive/embodied point of view, or that critically engage with these approaches.
Abstracts of contributed talks (250-500 words) should be sent to jasperherik@gmail.com.
Deadline: 21st of February 2017
Notification of acceptance: 7th of March 2017
Website: www.gettingreal.eu
Workshop organized within the framework of the collaborative FWO-NWO project ‘Getting real about words and numbers. An enactive approach to language and mathematics’ involving the philosophy departments at the University of Antwerp (E. Myin and K. Zahidi) and the Erasmus University Rotterdam (F.A. Muller and J. van den Herik).
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