Speakers

Carlos Muñoz-Suárez holds the position of professor in the neuroscience department at Universidad Icesi (Colombia) within the Master's program in social neuroscience and the Specialization in cognitive neuroscience of aging. Additionally, he serves as a lecturer in the Master's program in psychopedagogy at Pontificia Universidad Bolivariana (Colombia) and as a researcher in the Cognitive Science and Language doctoral program and the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (Spain).

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Muñoz Suárez, C. (2017). Are Mental Affordances in the Landscape? Comments to McClelland. MindOnline.

• Muñoz Suárez, C. (2009). Sensations, Conceptions and Perceptions. Remarks on Assessability for Accuracy. In: Language and World; (Munz; V., Puhl; K. & Wang; J. (eds.), Niederösterreichkultur, 297-299.

Site: carlosmunozsuarez.com

Jelle Pieter Bruineberg is currently a tenure track assistant professor of the Department of Communications at the University of Copenhaguen. He pursued studies in philosophy, cognitive science, and physics at the University of Amsterdam. Following his graduation in January 2014, he embarked on a PhD project titled "Naturalizing skilled intentionality" as part of Erik Rietveld's VIDI project "The Landscape of Affordances: Situating the Embodied Mind," which he successfully completed in March 2018. His research interests revolve around how insights from self-organization, neurodynamics, and dynamical systems theory can enrich our understanding of skilled action. Specifically, he is intrigued by how the organism-environment system and the organism's neurodynamics interact to create an integrated system that optimizes its grasp on a field of affordances during skilled action. 

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Bruineberg, J. P., & Van den Herik, J. C. (2021). Embodying mental affordances. Inquiry, 1-21.

• Bruineberg, J., Chemero, A., & Rietveld, E. (2019). General ecological information supports engagement with affordances for ‘higher’cognition. Synthese, 196, 5231-5251.

Site: cfs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/774059

Joan Sebastián Mejía Rendón is completing his doctorate at the Institute of Humanities of the National University of Córdoba (IDH, UNC-CONICET). Since the beginning of his career, he has been interested in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology, undertaking research linked to the research group "Knowledge, Philosophy, Science, History, and Society" (UdeA - Colombia), of which he is currently a member. His research has focused on the behavior of tool use and manufacture in non-human animals.

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Mejía Rendón, J. S., & Crelier, A. (2019). De la telaraña a la Web: artefactos cognitivos en animales no-humanos. ArtefaCToS Revista de estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología, 27-52.

• Mejía Rendón, S. (2017). ¿Metacognición en los animales? Los argumentos de Carruthers en contra de los test metacognitivos. Versiones. Revista de Filosofía, (12), 62-76.

Site: cordoba.academia.edu/JoanSebastianMej%C3%ADaRend%C3%B3n

Joëlle Proust holds a reseracher position at Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and serves on the Scientific Council of National Education chaired by Stanislas Dehaene. Her career spans various domains within logic, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. Her research has focused in exploring the naturalization of representational capacity and delving into topics such as action awareness, its impairments in schizophrenia, and the structure of mental agency. Using a control view of action, she analyses metacognition as a crucial functional ingredient in mental action (e.g. controlled remembering, perceiving, reasoning), whose functional equivalent for bodily action is motor control through anticipatory sensory feedback. Her interdisciplinary approach led to the formation of the ESF-EUROCORE project, investigating metacognition's phylogeny and ontogeny, alongside its relation to consciousness. In addition to her academic pursuits, she has played a pivotal role in shaping scientific societies, co-founding several including SOPHA, HOPOS, ESAP, and ESPP. An advanced grant awarded to Proust from 2011 to 2016  by the European Research Council  allowed several teams of researchers (psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers) to explore   the metacognitive sensitivity of Western and Eastern children and adults to epistemic norms such as intelligibility, truth, coherence, relevance and consensus.

Her research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Proust, J. (2023). Affordances from a control viewpoint. Philosophical Psychology, 1-25.

• Proust, J. (2014). The representational structure of feelings. In Open Mind. Frankfurt am Main: MIND Group.

• Proust, J. (2013). The philosophy of metacognition: Mental agency and self-awareness. OUP Oxford.

Site: joelleproust.org

Marta Jorba Grau is a Serra Húnter Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona. Her primary research areas encompass Philosophy of Mind and Psychology, with a focus on cognitive phenomenology, thought and thinking, consciousness, inner speech, affordances, and autism. Additionally, she is engaged in Feminist Philosophy, exploring intersectionality, social categories, gender, and sexuality. She is affiliated with the Language in Neurodiversity Lab (Lindy Lab), the Grup d’Estudis Fenomenològics (GEF, Societat Catalana de Filosofia), and holds a senior membership in the LOGOS Research Group. Currently, she serves as an Area Editor for Philosophy of Mind and Cognition in the journal Theoria and is a board member of SWIP-Analytic, the Sociedad Español de Filosofía Analítica, the European Society of Analytic Philosophy, and the Network for Phenomenological Research.

Her research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Jorba, M. (2020). Husserlian horizons, cognitive affordances and motivating reasons for action. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 19(5), 847-868.

• Jorba, M., & Vicente, A. (2014). Cognitive phenomenology, access to contents, and inner speech. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21(9-10), 74-99.

Site: www.upf.edu/web/marta-jorba

Max Jones works as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, where he teaches courses on Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Epistemology Previously, he held a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in philosophy at the University of Leeds, collaborating with John Divers on the Leverhulme-funded Thinking Counterfactually project alongside Shyane Siriwardena. His research is primarily motivated by the conviction that recent developments in the sciences of the mind have significant implications for traditional philosophical debates in metaphysics and epistemology. He is particularly interested in exploring the implications of embodied cognition, predictive processing, ecological psychology, and active perception. His doctoral research investigated the impact of recent findings regarding the nature of numerical cognition on traditional issues in the philosophy of mathematics. 

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Jones, M. (2018). Seeing numbers as affordances. In Naturalizing Logico-Mathematical Knowledge (148-163). Routledge.

• McClelland, T., & Jones, M. (2024). Mental Action and the Scope of Affordance Perception. In The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms (71-82). Routledge.

Site: maxjonesphilosophy.com

Melina Gastélum Vargas is a full-time professor-researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of UNAM in Mexico, and is a physicist with a master's and a doctorate in philosophy of cognitive sciences. She studies perception within the framework of radical embodied cognitive science, focusing particularly on affordances and temporal experience, learning and affectivity within enactivism, and theories of ecological psychology. Additionally, she has published works on enactive hermeneutics of space and time and phenomenology, as well as affordances and science, technology, and material culture in multicultural environments.

Her research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Gallagher, S., Martínez, S. F., & Gastélum, M. (2017). Action-space and time: Towards an enactive hermeneutics. Place, space and hermeneutics, 83-96.

• Gastélum Vargas M. (2020) The intrinsic role of normativity: Building umwelt with affection. Constructivist Foundations 15(3): 218–220.

Site: unam1.academia.edu/MelinaGastelum

Miguel Segundo-Ortín is currently a Ramón y Cajal research fellow in the Philosophy Department at Universidad de Murcia, Spain, and a member of the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab). Previously, he held positions as a post-doctoral researcher at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), within a research project led by Dr. Annemarie Kalis, and at the University of Wollongong (Australia), within a research project led by Prof. Daniel D. Hutto. His research is centered on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences, with a particular focus on ecological (neo-Gibsonian) psychology and other embodied and situated theories of cognition. His primary interests lie in developing a neo-Gibsonian approach to comparative cognition and studying how socio-cultural norms shape and mold human agency.

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Segundo-Ortin, M., & Heras-Escribano, M. (2023). The risk of trivializing affordances: mental and cognitive affordances examined. Philosophical Psychology, 1-17.

• Segundo-Ortin, M., & Satne, G. (2022). Sharing attention, sharing affordances: From dyadic interaction to collective information. Access and mediation: Transdisciplinary perspectives on attention, 11, 91.

Site: miguelsegundoortinphd.com

Santiago Arango-Muñoz is an associate professor at the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia. Before returning to Colombia, he completed his PhD studies in philosophy at the Philosophy Institute II at Ruhr-Universität Bochum under the supervision of Tobias Schlicht. Additionally, he resided in Paris where he pursued a Master's degree in philosophy of mind and cognitive science under the supervision of Joëlle Proust at the Institut Jean-Nicod. Prior to that, he undertook his undergraduate studies in philosophy at the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia. His research primarily focuses on philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and/or cognitive science, with additional interests in Wittgenstein and 20th-century philosophy. He has written on memory, epistemic feelings and metacognition. 

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Arango-Muñoz, S., & Bermúdez, J. P. (2018). Remembering as a mental action. In New directions in the philosophy of memory (75-96). Routledge.

• Arango-Muñoz, S. (2014). The nature of epistemic feelings. Philosophical Psychology, 27(2), 193-211.

Site: udea.academia.edu/SantiagoArangoMunoz

Sergio F. Martínez Muñoz is a member of the Institute of Philosophical Research at UNAM. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, a master's degree in History and Philosophy of Science, followed by a master's degree in mathematics and a doctorate in Philosophy of Science from Indiana University Bloomington. Previously he served as an assistant professor at DePauw University. He has formed several research groups on different topics, including history and philosophy of biology, the relationship between history and philosophy of science. His work has dealt on the implications of cognitive science for rethinking traditional problems in philosophy of science. His present research is focused on artifactuality and the epistemological role of the material culture of scientific practices, and in the development of an embodied model of social cognition.

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Martínez, S.F.  & Carrillo, N. (2021) The Metaphoric Sources of Scientific Innovation. In Shyam Wuppuluri, A. C. Grayling (eds), Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities: Words and Worlds, Synthese library series, Springer.

• Martínez, S. F., & Huang, X. (2011). Epistemic groundings of abstraction and their cognitive dimension. Philosophy of Science, 78(3), 490-511.

Site: filosoficas.unam.mx/~sfmar/home.html

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence at the University of Memphis. His areas of research include phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, especially topics related to embodiment, self, agency and intersubjectivity, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of time. He holds a secondary research appointment at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has held  Honorary Professorships at the University of Copenhagen, Durham University (UK) and the University of Tromsø, Norway. He is currently part of the research project Minds in Skilled Performance with funding from the Australian Research Council (2017-2020). He was principle investigator on several previous grants, including a European Commission Marie Curie Actions Grant: TESIS: Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity (2011-15), and a Templeton Foundation grant (2011-2013). He is a founding editor and a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

His research related to the topics of the workshop includes:

• Gallagher, S. (2013). The socially extended mind. Cognitive systems research, 25, 4-12.

• Gallagher, S., & Crisafi, A. (2009). Mental institutions. Topoi, 28, 45-51.

Site: memphis.edu/philosophy/people/bios/shaun-gallagher.php