Program

4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: the 4E’s Approach to the Mind/Brain
Catholic University of Portugal, Braga, 6-8 March 2023

Monday, 6 March 2023

8:15-9:00 REGISTRATION

9:00-9:30 OPENING SESSION (Aula Magna)

9:30-10:30 KEYKNOTE TALK 1 – Aula Magna: Shaun Gallagher (Univ. Memphis, USA / Uni. Wollongong, Australia) Title: Do we know how the brain
really works? Embodied cognition and the critique of neurocentrism
Chair: Steven S. Gouveia
10:30-11:00 Coffee-Break
Room 2.3 – Phenomenology Room 2.4 – Predictive Mind Room 2.2 – Linguistic I Room 1.1 – Husserl
Chair: Bruno Nobre Chair: Elton Marques Chair: Diogo Pinheiro Chair: Ernesto Tages
11:00-11:30 Carlos Morujão (Catholic Simone Bernardi della Rosa (Uni. Mildreth Liliet Hernández Cruz Zixuan Liu (Uni. Cologne),
Portuguese Uni.), Molise), Habit as anticipatory and (National Autonomous Uni. Mexico), Epiphenomenalism: A
A Phenomenological predictive system Language learning in infants and the Husserlian Version and
Approach to Embodied and luhumannian distinction between self- Solution
Extended Perspectives on reference and hetero-reference
Consciousness
11:30-12:00 Elizabeth Beckman (Uni. Stéphanie Krokida (Univ. Paris I Ulises Rodríguez Jordá (Uni. Basque Francesca Forlè (Vita-
Michigan), The Panthéon-Sorbonne), Country), Should enactive cognitive Salute San Raffaele Uni.),
Phenomenology of and Phenomenology and Predictive science welcome or reject the Embodied affectivity.
Moral Responsibility for Processing: a love or hate Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis? Investigating the relation
Empathic Failures relationship? between bodily
expressions and affective
experiences
12:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:00 KEYKNOTE TALK 2 – Aula Magna: Peter Gärdenfors (Uni. Lund, Sweden) Title: Actions, causes and forces
Chair: Carlos Morujão
15:00-15:15 Break
 Room 2.3 – Brain
Chair: Thomas van Es
15:15-15:45 Marco Facchin (IUSS Pavia),
Should we believe in neural
structural representations?
Rescuing radically embodied
and enactive accounts of the
brain [online]
15:45-16:15 Farid Zahnoun (Freie Uni.
Berlin), Making sense of
information in the brain:
from prediction to
anticipation
16:15-16:45
Room 2.3 – Cognition
Chair: Gloria Andrada
16:45-17:15 Benjamin Rancourt (North
Carolina State Uni.), The
Virtue of Ignorance: How
knowledge needs cognitive
limitations
17:15-17:45 Jade Nijman (EHESS/IJN) &
Roberto Casati (Institut Jean
Nicod), The cognitive
advantages of the notebook
17:45-18:15 Louis Loock (Osnabrück
Uni.), A Journey to the Core
of Cognition: Can a core of
cognition unite the situated
approaches?
18:15-19:15
Room 2.4 – Intentionality
Chair: João Carlos Onofre
Sâmara Costa (Uni. Porto),
Embodied intentionality: Aristotle
and Merleau-Ponty
Xabier Barandiaran (Uni. Basque
Country), Outline for a
sensorimotor theory of enactive
intentionality
Coffee-Break
Room 2.4 – Embodiment
Chair: Ana Teixeira de Melo
Elena Kalmykova (Uppsala Uni.),
Embodied rationality: just radical
enough
John Dorsch (Ludwig Maximilian
Uni. Munich), Knowing Ourselves
Together Through Embodied
Entanglement: The Role of
Embodied Confidence on the Path
to Acquiring Self-knowledge
Axel Seemann (Bentley University),
Spatial Frameworks and the
Embodied Mind
Port Wine Welcoming Session – Aula Magna
Room 2.2 – Linguistic II
Chair: Linda Thornburg
Augusto Soares Da Silva (Portuguese
Catholic Uni.), How many Es cognition
for emotions? Evidence from
culturally-driven conceptual
structuring of emotions in Portuguese
Diogo Pinheiro (Federal Uni. Rio de
Janeiro), Intersubjectivity and
preemptive interaction in
grammatical constructions: the case
of Brazilian Portuguese vê/veja se
“see if”
Room 2.2 – Affordance
Chair: Marcos Vidal
Carlos Vara Sanchez (Complutense
Uni. Madrid), I would prefer not to: on
the affective consequences of turning
down affordances
David Sánchez González (Uni.
Granada), A non-factualist approach
to situated cognition: affordances,
intentions and mindshaping
Mohsen Forghani (Uni. Warsaw),
Analogical reasoning over a field of
affordances
Room 1.1 – Artificial
Chair: Ângela Leite
Barbara Tomczyk (Uni.
Lublin), Extended and
Artificial Cognitive Systems
as Autonomous Agents
Catalin Teoharie (Uni.
Bucharest), Free Energy
Principle and Physical
Symbol System Hypothesis:
a good theoretical base for
AGI
Room 1.1 – Technology
Chair: Ângela Leite
Jaroslav Malík (Uni.
Hradec Králové),
(Dis)solving the alignment
problem of AI: 4E
cognition, rationality and
coexistence
Abootaleb Safdari (,
Bremen Uni.), Basic Trust
in the Human-Robot
Relation: A
Phenomenological
Proposal
Daniele Lotito (Uni. Pisa)
& Giulia Leonetti (IUSS
Pavia), Why AI Intelligence
will benefit from Extended
Cognition approaches
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:30 KEYKNOTE TALK 3 – Aula Magna: Dirk Geeraerts (Uni. Leuven, Belgium) Title: Minding Meaning. Sense individuation and Semantic
10:30-11:00
Room 2.3 – Consciousness
Chair: Ernesto Tages
11:00-11:30 Pedro Alves (Uni. Lisbon),
Mental Life and
Consciousness
11:30-12:00 Bongrae Seok (Alvernia
Uni.), Embodied
Consciousness of
Mindfulness: Affordances
and Affectances
12:00-14:15
Room 2.3 – Body
Chair: Rui Vieira da Cunha
14:15-14:45 Sepehr Razavi (Uni.
Edinburgh), Out of One’s
Body: On not perceiving the
tool for itself
14:45-15:15 Cheyne Joslin (Uni. South
Florida), REConceiving the
Body Schem”
REGISTRATION
Indeterminacy
Chair: Augusto Soares da Silva
Coffee-Break
Room 2.4 – Predictive Processing Room 2.2 – Linguistic III Room 1.1 – Personal
Chair: Maria José Lopes Chair: Meno van Calcar Identify
Chair: Ricardo Barroso
Maja Białek (Uni. Białystok), The 4E Linda L. Thornburg (Uni. Southern Marta Pérez Verdugo (Uni.
approach, predictive processing, California) & Klaus-Uwe Panther (Uni. Basque Country), An
and the specificity of delusions in Hamburg), A 4E’s Approach to enactive-sensorimotor
schizophrenia Figurative Action: The case of account on how (digital)
embodied speech acts technologies impact
personal autonomy
Jacopo Frascaroli (Uni. York), Marcos Gonzalez Vidal (Uni. Autónoma Rui Vieira da Cunha (Uni.
Predictive Processing, Art, and Madrid & UPC), From metaphorical Porto), The evolution of
Phenomenal Experience thinking to thinking dialectically: Parfitian brains and their
arrangements for Conceptual (un)importance for
Metaphor Theory personal ontology
LUNCH
Room 2.4 – Extended Room 2.2 – Aesthetics Room 1.1 - Philosophy of
Chair: Ângela Leite Chair: Martinho Moura Mind
Chair: Meno van Calcar
Giulia Leonetti (IUSS Pavia) & Harry Drummond (Uni. Liverpool), Dina Mendonça (Nova
Marco Facchin (IUSS Pavia), The Interpersonal Aesthetic Experiences Uni. Lisbon), The Insights
width of non-human extended of the Private-Public
cognition distinction for 4E’s
Approach in the
Philosophy of Mind
Pelin Kasar (Central European Uni.), Abel B. Franco (California State Uni.), Rafael Augusto Coelho Do
The Active Unconscious: The Limits You Cannot Judge This Café if You Nascimento (Uni.
of the Extended Mind Have Not “Had Coffee” in It: Our Edinburgh), An Orchestra
Everyday Aesthetic Evaluations of with no Maestro: The All

15:15-15:45 Kelby Bibler (Uni. Memphis),
Altering the Body, Altering
the Mind: A 4E Approach to
Psychopharmacological
Interventions
15:45-16:15
Room 2.3 – Mind-World
Chair: Rui Vieira da Cunha
16:15-16:45 Miguel García-Valdecasas
(Uni. Navarra), Life-mind
continuity theories: what is
at stake?
16:45-17:15 Thomas van Es (Uni. Basque
Country & Antwerp), Beyond
the mind-world relation:
enactive perception,
sensorimotor networks and
organism-environment
systems
17:15-17:45 Supriya Bajpai (Indian Inst.
Technology), Mind and
Agency in non-humans from
Evolutionary and 4E-
Cognition Perspective
17:45-18:00
18:00-19:00 KEYKNOTE TALK 4 – Aula Magna: Karl Friston (Uni. College London) Title: Me and my Markov blanket
19h30-22h30
Architecture Are Embodied, Enactive, too Humean model of
Embedded and Extended Cognition
Alejandro Hortal (Wake Forest Barbara Larson (Uni. West Florida), Jeremy Pober (Uni.
Uni.), Exploring the Intersection of The Experiential Turn: Modern Art and Antwerp), Conceptual
Virtue Nudges and Extended the Rise of Psychophysiology Constitution and the
Cognition in Guiding Moral Causal-Constitutive Fallacy
Decision-Making
Coffee-Break
Room 2.4 – Distributed Room 2.2 – 4E Cognition I Room 1.1 –
Chair: Elton Marques Chair: Ana Teixeira de Melo Representation
Chair: João Carlos Onofre
Hannah Sine (Villanova Uni.), ‘I’ Michael Cannon (Eindhoven Uni. Sanja Sreckovic (Uni.
that is ‘We’ and ‘We’ that is ‘I’: Technology), Making sense of 4E Belgrade), Affects as
Socially Distributed Cognition in cognition: Problem-Solving and Embodied Representations
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Problem-Defining
Tertia Gillett (Villanova Uni.), Group Robert Clowes (Nova Uni. Lisbon), Julian Hauser (Uni.
Minds, Really? An Analysis of Looking Backwards to Move Forwards Barcelona), The structure
Examples from the History of with 4E Cognitive Science of minimal self-
Distributed Cognition representation
Gen Eickers (Uni. Bayreuth), Scripts Mirko Prokop (Uni. Basque Country),
in Social Cognition How Precariousness Matters
Break
Chair: Steven S. Gouveia [online]
Dinner’s Conference
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
9:00-10:00 KEYKNOTE TALK 5 – Aula Magna: Adriana Sampaio (Uni. Minho, Portugal) Title: How touch connect us with the world? A
Room 2.3 – Metaphysics
Chair: Álvaro Balsas
10:00-10:30 Javier Sánchez (Uni.
Navarra), Is the Maximum
Entropy Production Just a
Heuristic Principle? In Need
of a Metaphysical Stance on
Natural Determination
10:30-11:00 Bruno Serra (Uni. Beira
Interior), Free-will, emotion, Maia), Understanding psychology
and the problem of akrasia
11:00-11:30
Room 2.3 – Mental Health
Chair: Ângela Leite
11:30-12:00 Miguel Núñez de Prado
Gordillo (Uni. Granada), 4E
Approaches to Mental
Health: A Review
12:00-12:30 Enara Garcia (Uni. Basque
Country), Affectivity in
Mental Disorders: An
Enactive-Simondonian
Approach
neurodevelopmental approach
Chair: Paulo Dias
Room 2.4 – Perception-Action Room 2.2 – Linguistic IV Room 1.1 – Linguistic V
Chair: Elton Marques Chair: Klaus-Uwe Panther Chair: Alice Mevis
Daniel Kim (Uni. York), Naïve Marie Teich (Max-Planck-Institute), A Menno van Calcar,
Realism and Sensorimotor Theory: Metaphor Theory based on Reasoning as doing
A New Response to the Problem of etymological network structure (Erasmus Uni. Rotterdam)
Perceptual Presence analysis
Thabata Telles (Polytechnic Inst. Maria Clotilde Almeida (Uni. Lisbon) António Mendes
& Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (Uni Illinois), (Barcelinhos School), The
of rehabilitation in sports injury via The Crucifixion Frame in Christianity causal instinct: a 4 E’s
perception-action and affordances and Francis Bacon’s artworks: a approach to causation
multimodal approach
Coffee-Break
Room 2.4 – Situated Cognition Room 2.2 – 4E’s Approach Room 1.1 – 4E Cognition II
Chair: Maria Clotilde Almeida Chair: Marcos Vidal Chair: Alice Mevis
Richard Sims (Independent Gloria Andrada (Nova Uni. Lisbon) & Ana Teixeira de Melo (Uni.
Scholar), Bacteria, Termites and Richard Menary (Macquarie Uni.), Coimbra) & Letícia Renault
Jazz: stigmergic coordination as a Cognitive Injustice (Uni. Coimbra), From
unifying framework for basic cartographing to
cognition choreographing complex
thinking: new possibilities
for “seeing” and acting on
the thinking
Adrian Wieczorek (Ludwig Lola S. Almendros (Uni. Salamanca) & Andrea Hiott (Uni.
Maximilian Uni. Munich), Radical Xabier E. Barandiaran (Uni. Basque Heidelberg), The case for
Situated Cognition. A late Country), An Enactive critique to Waymaking: how the
Heideggerian account of Floridi’s Inforg agency using ChatGPT navigational reframing of
embeddedness as a case study cognition alleviates
 traditional mind/body
dichotomies
12:30-13:00 Luke Kersten (Uni. Lisbon), Maria Fülberth (Uni. Constance), Thijs Heijmeskamp (Erasmus Uni. Jean Charles Pelland (Uni.
New Directions in Embodied Belief-formation – embodied, Rotterdam), Situation and action: Bergen) Grasping numbers
Predictive Processing enacted, and controllable explaining agency without our hands
13:00-13:15 FARWELL SESSION (Aula Magna)
13:15-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-16:00 EXCURSION B - Guimarães

16:15-18:15 EXCURSION A - Braga