The Lisbon Mind Cognition & Knowledge Group (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) is a group of philosophers and cognitive scientists dedicated to understanding cognition, reasoning and the mind in their full compass. While members of the group have different perspectives and backgrounds, a special focus is the exploration of the possibilities and problems afforded by 4E cognitive science, which considers the mind as embodied, embedded, extended and enactive. We consider (and critique) these frameworks in order to help develop new post-Cartesian understandings of the mind. Especially we focus on the particularities and material bases of human minds, especially in action, material culture and the social world as well in the dynamics of neural systems.

We develop these themes in part to contribute toward the practical reasoning strand of research developed by the ArgLab and IFILNOVA.

​News & Events
Forthcoming  2023​​​​​​​​
October 2024
  • ​28th of October, Robert Vinten's review of Jennifer Lackey's book Criminal Testimonial Injustice was published in the journal Manuscrito it is available here.

May 2024
  • ​30th of May, Robert Vinten's paper, 'Knowledge, Confidence, and Epistemic Injustice', was published in the journal Symposion.  It can be accessed here.

February 2024
December 2023 ​
November 2023
  • 24th November, Final Event of the project "Mary B. Hesse's 'New Epistemology' Princples and Legacy". Talk by Mauricio Suarez (U. Complutense de Madrid) on "Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science"
  • ​13th November , Pre-Launch event for the  GENAI  Project (Ensuring Human Cognitive Flourishing against the background of GENerative AI: Sustaining Deep Minds within our new cognitive ecology). The project is funded as part of the FCSH  exploratory funding for international projects initiative (Financiamento Exploratório para projetos internacionais 2023). CAN SE1 (ALMNEG)
  • 10th November, John Sutton gives ArgLab colloqium on “The Wisconsin moment: embodied interaction in collaborative recall experiments”.
  • 10th November, Talk by Guido Tana at the Oficina de Filosofia Analitica 13 Conference, at NOVA Lisbon. Title "Phenomenal Conservatism, Arbitrariness, and Bootstrapping".
  • 8th & 9th November workshop on International Conference on Cognitive Ecologies, Values and Disruptive Technologies with keynote speakers John Sutton and Evilyn Tribble. Organized by Robert Clowes, Gloria Andrada and David Spurrett.
  • 7th November, Robert Clowes signs contracts for funding for the new GENAI Project (Ensuring Human Cognitive Flourishing against the background of GENerative AI: sustaining deep minds within our new cognitive ecology.)
October 2023
​September 2023
  • 25th September​, Fourth Meeting of the Lisbon Epistemic Injustice Reading Group, organized by Federico Cella, Guido Tana, and Dima Mohammed.
  • 14th-16th September, Talk by Rita Lobo at the 5th International Congress of the Portuguese Society of Philosophy, University of Evora, titled "Fobia metafísica, fusão cognitiva e dobradiças"
  • 14th-16h September, Talk by Camila Lobo at the 5th International Confress of the Portuguese Society of Philosophy, University of Evora, titled "Hermeneutical Justice, Reason and Affectivity"
  • 9th September, Masterclass with Prof. Chris Sinha on Language and Mind.
  • 8th September Time and Events in Language, Mind and World, presented by Vera da Silva Sinha and  Prof. Chris Sinha, as part of LMCK Group research in progress series.
  • 8th of September, Talk by Guido Tana  at the 2023 SIFA (Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica) Conference in Alessandria, Italy. The title of the talk is "Phenomenal Conservatism, Bootstrapping, and Arbitrariness"

July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
​​​February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
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November 2022















​21st Nov,  Forces and Fields, organised in the scope of Mary B. Hesse's "New Epistemology" Principles and Legacy (14.30 - 16.30) (details here)

14th Nov,
Robert Vinten's paper 'Wittgenstein, Quasi-Fideism, and Scepticism' was published in Topoi. It is available here

​4th Nov, 
​ Scientific Modelling and the Classic Tradition (10am to 4pm), NOVA FCSH, TORRE B, SALA B304. (details here).​
October 2022
September 2022 ​
August 2022
​July 2022

20th July. (10.30 - 16.00) Workshop on Cognitive Ecologies organized by Gloria Andrada and Robert Clowes. 10:30 – 11:00
Introduction (Robert Clowes & Gloria Andrada)
11:00 – 12:00
Steven Gouveia
Bridging the Gap between Ethics and Epistemology: the case of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Gloria Andrada
Extended Knowers in an Unjust World
​15:00 – 16:00
Robert W. Clowes (with Paul Smart and Richard Heersmink)
Extended Mind and Ethics
May 2022
March 2022
January 2022
  • 12th January, Camila Lobo's paper “Agência nas margens: revisitar o conceito de injustiça hermenêutica” and Ricardo N. Henriques's paper "On Wittgenstein Hinge Epistemology: Coliva’s Framework Reading​" published in "Linguagem e Ontologia: questões sobre conhecimento e agência / Language and Ontology: questions on knowledge and agency" (Manuela Teles ed.). Available here. 
December 2021​​
November 2021
  • 26th and 27th November, Robert Vinten gave a presentation on Wittgenstein, Justice, and Liberalism at the Language and Communication in 2021 Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia (via zoom).
  • 24h November, Paul Smart gave the LMRG RIP Seminar on "Technological Trustworthiness: The Free Energy Account" (via zoom).
  • 23rd November, Diogo Ferrer gave the Autumn Presentation at Epistemata: Cycle of Conferences on Cognition and Rationality, organised by Nuno Venturinha, on his phenomenological interpretation of Hegel's 'The Phenomenology of Spirit'. Details here.
  • 15th November, Alberto Oya's paper “Charles S. Peirce’s Natural Foundation for Religious Faith” published in Teorema. Available here.
  • 9th November, António Caeiro gave the 4th Lecture of the Epistemology of Religious Belief Project. Details here.
  • 8th November, Alberto Oya gave the presentation 'Unamuno on the Ontological Status of God and Other Fictional Characters' to the Iberian Modernist Studies Forum organised by Penn State University (USA).
  • 1st November, Nuno Venturinha is the Guest Editor for Synthese's special issue on the Epistemology of John Greco. Details here.
October 2021
  • 27th October,  Marina Cortês gave the LMRG RIP Seminar on "Arrow of Time and Free will". Details here.​​

  • 21st and 22nd October, Symposium on the Mind-Technology Problem. Details here.​
  • 21st October, Paul Smart's paper "Shedding Light on the Extended Mind: HoloLens, Holograms, and Internet-Extended Knowledge" published in Frontiers in Psychology. Available here.
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
  • 22nd July, Robert Vinten's paper 'Theolologicophilological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work?' is published in Philosophical Investigations. Available here.
  • 9th July, Robert Vinten's book chapter 'Marx and Wittgenstein on Religion' is published in the book Wittgenstein and Marx. Marx and Wittgenstein (M. De Iaco, G. Schimmenti, and F. Sulpizio, eds.). Available here.
  • 1st July, Alberto Oya's paper 'Análisis de Un pobre hombre rico o el sentimiento cómico de la vida, de Miguel de Unamuno' is published in Estudios Filosóficos. Available here.
  • 1st July, Alberto Oya's Spanish translation of  introductory study and notes on Charles Leslie Stevenson’s “Persuasive Definitions” is published in Quaderns de Filosofia. Available here.
  • 1st July, Robert Vinten's book review of Gorazd Andrejc and Daniel H. Weiss's book 'Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein' is published in Religious Studies. Available here.
May 2021
  • 10th May, Alberto Oya gave the seminar Charles S. Peirce's Natural Scientific Foundations for Religious Faith at IFILNOVA. More details here.​
April 2021
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March 2021
  • 27th March, Camila Lobo gave the presentation 'Speaking Silences: A Feminist Wittgensteinian Account of Hermeneutical Injustice' at the graduate workshop organized in the context of the International Conference Wittgenstein and Feminism (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Online).
  • 23rd March, Alberto Oya's paper “On Jamesian ‘Passionally Caused Atheistic Belief’: a Reply to Cockayne and Warman” is published in Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, vol. 60 (2021), pp. 481–485.
February 2021
  • 4th February, ​E. Thomas Lawson (Honorary Professor at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queens University Belfast and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University) delivered the 3rd ERB Lecture 'A defense of inference systems and a discussion of competence approaches to human behavior, especially religious ritual behavior.'
January 2021
Activities from 2020

​​December 2020
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Tuesday December 15th
  • 10:15-20:45 Workshop: Wittgenstein, Religion, and Cognitive Science. There will be presentations from Roger Trigg (10:30-12) (with response from Florian Franken Figueiredo), Olympia Panagiotidou (13-14:15), Hans Van Eyghen (15-16:15), Gorazd Andrejč (17-18:15) and Rita McNamara (19:30-20:45). Abstracts and details of zoom link available here.

Wednesday December 2nd
​September 2020

Wed September 30th
  • 11.30-12.40: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Online Seminar with Klaus Gaertner (The Untold Story of Self and Revelation). Everyone Welcome. Zoom ID 880 3500 8159 (please email [email protected] for password) Abstract TBA.

August 2020

Tuesday August 4th
  • 15.30-17.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Online Seminar with Paul Smart (Mixed Realities, Hybrid Minds). Everyone Welcome. Zoom ID: 971 2958 1326. Please contact [email protected] for password.

July 2020

Mon July 27th
  • Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences
    Action, Ideology and Justice by Rob Vinten is now published. More information: here.

Wed July 29th
  • 9.15- 19.00: Wittgenstein, Nature, and Religion, 2nd ERB Project Workshop. Everyone Welcome. Details here.​

​Wed July 8th 
  • 15.00 – 16.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Online Seminar with Dina Mendonça (Why the Situated Approach to Emotions: Insights for Emotional Depth) Abstract here. Everyone welcome. ZOOM MEETING ID: 990 4978 5367,  send an email to [email protected] for the password).

June 2020 

Tuesday 30th July
  • 15.00-17.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Online Seminar with Josep L. Prades (University of Girona and LOGOS, University of Barcelona) (Self-knowledge without grounds, action without reasons) organized by Professor Nuno Venturinha. 


​Wed June 3rd  
  • 15.00 – 16.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Online Seminar with Gloria Andrada w/ Robert Clowes (Transparency in Extended Cognition). Everyone welcome.  (ZOOM Meeting ID: 91221672001, send an email to [email protected] for the password).

February 2020
​Friday  February 28th 
  • 9.50 – 17.00: Workshop "Perspectivas sobre o Delírio." Auditorium A13. Colégio Almada Negreiros.  Everyone welcome.  Program and abstracts: here

Wed February 19th 
  • 11.00 – 12.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Meeting . Group Members only. (Room: CAN SA (Colégio Almada Negreiros)
  • ​12.00 – 13.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Seminar with Fabrizia Garavaglia (A Situated Approach to Consciousness in Learning).  Abstract: here  (Room: CAN SA (Colégio Almada Negreiros) Everyone welcome. ​​​

January 2020

Wed January 22nd
  • 12.00 – 13.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Seminar with Abraham Sapien (The Structure of Unpleasantness) (Abstract: here). Everyone welcome. Room: CAN SA (Colégio Almada Negreiros)

Wed January 8th
​December 2019 
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Wed December 11th

  • 11.00 – 12.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Meeting . Group Members only. (Room: CAN SA)
  • ​12.00 – 13.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Seminar with Hili Razinsky (Interpersonal communication and philosophy of language). (Abstract here)Everyone welcome. CAN SA (Colégio Almada Negreiros) 

November  2019

Self and Knowledge through the Internet
12- 13th November 
Joint workshop organized by the Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group and AEGEA- Applied Epistemology Research Group. 
Workshop details here. 

Wed November 6th
  • 11.00 – 12.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Meeting . (Group Members only: CAN SA (Colégio Almada Negreiros))
  • 12.00 – 13.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Seminar with Rob  Vinten  (Wittgenstein, Buddhism, and Guilt)  (abstract here) Everyone Welcome: CAN SA (Colégio Almada Negreiros)


Research progress: 

January 2020

- Paul Smart undertook work exploring the links between mechanism-based approaches in the social sciences and the study of cyber-physical systems in computer science. 
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- Rob Vinten published a Book Review of Guy Axtell's  Problems of Religious Luck: Assessing the Limits of Reasonable Religious Disagreement  in Wittgenstein Studien, Vol. 11: Issue 1.

- Florian Franken  attended Philosophy for Children classes in school, prepared the talk for the ArgLab Research Colloquium and received invitation to give a talk at the 8th SWIP-Ireland Conference "What is Philosophy?" (May 2020). He also submitted a CfP for the 9th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (July 2020).

- Ricardo N. Henriques submitted the essay “The Normativity of Hinge Propositions” for participation in the 12th Wittgenstein Summer School in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. 
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December 2019
- Paul Smart and Robert Clowes are working on a paper that explores issues of constitutive relevance from an engineering perspective.

- Ricardo N. Henriques presented and discussed his PhD project (Trabalho Final) “The Vertigo of Belief – Inside Wittgenstein’s Epistemology of Religion”. He also published a book review on  Wittgenstein-Studien 11: Henriques, Ricardo N., Thomas D. Carroll: Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion, Wittgenstein-Studien 11 (2019): 291-294.

- Florian Franken Figueiredo submitted a paper to 'Philosophical Investigations' (Wiley): 'Ramsey's Pragmatism and Wittgenstein's Practical Turn' (under review)
He also Published a paper in 'Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie' (De Gruyter): 'Können Zwecke als Grundlage für eine Bedeutungstheorie dienen?'

- Gloria Andrada worked on a paper on the phenomenology of extended cognition. 

November 2019

- Rob Vinten was  invited to speak at a colloquium on 'Forms of Life, economy and society' at Universidade Beira Interior in Covilhã, on the 28th and 29th of November, 2019.  He gave a talk  on 'Wittgenstein, Justice, and Liberalism.'
- Dina Mendonça was an invited speaker for the seminar on Intersubjectivity and Tertiary Qualities organized by Shaun Gallagher at the Department of Philosophy at University of Memphis, USA, November 14th 2019. She participated in the  workshop discussion on Emotional Depth  organized by Chris Tollefsen. Also, she was invited to speak at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina on November 12th, 2019 and gave a talk on 'A Deweyan Take on the Role of Immersion for Minds.'
- Steven S. Gouveia gave a talk titled "Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence" at the Cyberpolitics Conference 2019, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 15-16 November 2019. He worked to finish his forthcoming book on Applied Ethics and worked on his Phd Thesis (on a chapter about metaphilosophy).

- Florian Franken Figueiredo joined the LMRG group. Importantly, this month he started his activity in the P4C-AIM project. He built a website for P4C-AIM and got familiar with the literature in Philosophy for Children. 


October 2019

Research progress:

- Paul Smart is currently writing two papers that discuss mechanistic approaches to extended cognition and the extended mind. Some of his work in this area was presented in the form of a research seminar to the Lisbon Mind & Reasoning Group on 6th September. Paul is continuing to explore the use of Microsoft HoloLens in a variety of cognitive and epistemic task contexts. The goal here is to understand the role of virtual representations (e.g., holograms) in supporting concrete instances of extended cognition and extended knowledge. Paul is co-editor of a new book in cinematic philosophy, titled “Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration.” The book was published by Routledge in October 2019 (https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-2049-Philosophical-Philosophers/dp/1138625337/). Over the course of the summer, Paul wrote a technical report examining China’s approach to cyber and data governance. This report was written as part of an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) project awarded to the University of Southampton by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The full report can be downloaded from http://paulsmart.cognosys.co.uk/pubs/2019/The%20Four%20Horsemen.pdf.

- Dina Mendonça gave a talk on Situated Approach to Emotions and Emotional Depth at Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2019-2020, Department of Philosophy of Universidade de Letras of University of Lisbon, October 4th, 2019.

- Robert Vinten has recently completed a review-essay about Guy Axtell's book Problems of Religious Luck that has been accepted for publication in Wittgenstein Studien and is  currently working on a paper about Wittgenstein, Buddhism, and guilt.

​- Gloria Andrada has joined the Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Research Group as a new research fellow.  She has presented her work on Extended Knowledge-how on the "II Workshop Internacional Filósofas: Representaciones, epistemología y análisis identitario," at Universidad Carlos 3, Madrid on October 25th, 2019. ​  

- Steven S. Gouveia submitted the manuscript of the edited book "The Age of Artificial Intelligence: an Exploration". He shot the documentary "The Age of Artificial Intelligence" (with the participation of Peter Singer, Paul Thagard, Sabina Leonelli, and many more). He presented a talk at the Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies - 4th Avant Conference 2019 (Porto) titled: "Predictive Processing and Consciousness: Prediction Fallacy and its Spatiotemporal Resolution". He finished is 6 months research staying at the Minds, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics group (Royal Institute of Mental Health, Ottawa). He submitted a research paper "A Defense of the Principle of Distributed Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence" to the Revue Roumaine de Philosophie and he is working on his PhD thesis.

Rob Clowes gave a keynote talk at The Explanatory Power of Predictive Processing and Its Limits." Special Session on Predictive Processing at the Avant Conference on Interdisciplinary Trends in Porto. With Ines Hipolito he organised and gave a paper at the conference on Radical Enactive Cognitive Science and its Critics. Clowes paper on "Screen Reading and New Reading Ecologies" was also finally included in a paper issue of the journal AI & Society (actually the December issue but it is already online).

Jorge Gonçalves 

Radical Enactive Cognitive Science and its Critics
16th - 17th October 2019
Workshop Details  and how to arrive at the venue.

June 2019
  • Gloria Andrada is visiting from the Autonomous University of Madrid thanks to a Yerun Researcher Mobility Award in order to work with Robert Clowes
​             More info: here

​Thursday June  27th
  • 15.00 – 16.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Seminar with Gloria Andrada de Gregorio (An Enculturated approach to Knowledge-How,  Av. de Berna, I&D Building, ID 0.06, more details).
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May 2019

Wed May 15th
  • 14.00 – 15.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Meeting . (Room TBA)
  • 15.00 – 16.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Seminar with Dina Mendonça (Why Immersion is Important for Minds?) Av. de Berna, I&D Building, ID 0.06 (abstract here)

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Research progress:

- Paul Smart is evaluating mechanistic approaches to extended cognition and extended knowledge using a combination of philosophical and computational techniques. He has developed an application for the Microsoft HoloLens device, which aims to augment the real-world environment epistemically-relevant virtual objects.

​-  Steven S. Gouveia published the two edited books "Automata's Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind" (Vernon Press) and "Perception, Cognition and Aesthetics" (Routledge). He is working at the Minds, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics group (The Royal Institute of Mental Health, Uni. Ottawa) for the next six months, preparing his talk "Predictive Processing and Consciousness: a fundamental limitations?" to be presented at the Science of Consciousness Conference 2019 (Switzerland). 


​April 2019

Wed April 10th
Research progress:

- Dina Mendonça is writing a paper on "Surprise and Predictive Mind" for edited volume "The Science and Philosophy of Predictive Processing (edited by Steven S. Gouveia, Dina Mendonça & Manuel Curado, Bloomsbury). She is also teaching Second Part of Philosophy of Mind course (NOVA FCSH, UNL).

- Paul Smart submitted a formal book proposal for a monograph on social machines. He also worked on two journal papers that are intended to introduce a new field of study for the sciences of the mind. This field centres on the notions of photonic cognition and the possibility of photonic minds.

- Robert Clowes paper Living With Exoselves was accepted for publication and he is working on some final revisions based reviewer suggestions. Also, he is working on a paper on virtual selves with Paul Smart.
 
- Steven S. Gouveia reviewed and submitted the final proofs of both "Automata's Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind" and "Perception, Cognition and Aesthetics". He is also preparing a visiting research project at the Minds, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics group (The Royal Institute of Mental Health, Uni. Ottawa) for 6 months to work on Predictive Processing.

- Klaus Gärtner will present a paper on Predictive Processing and Self-knowledge at the 13th Creph Annual Seminar 2019: Introspection and Self-Awareness in Liège, Belgium.

- Robert Vinten recently became a project fellow within the FCT project 'Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar, and the Contemporary World'. He is currently writing about Wittgenstein and religious epistemology. He has also, in early April, submitted a book proposal for a monograph on Wittgenstein and the social sciences.

- Inês Hipólito gave a talk at The School of Liberal arts is organizing its inaugural conference – Understanding Others through Narrative Practices  University of Wollongong (Australia), on "How culture changes what we see". 


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March 2019  

Research progress:

- Robert Clowes was working on several papers including one on mind uploading and another on predicting processing (since submitted). Also continuing work on editing the forthcoming book The Mind Technology Problem.

​- Paul Smart submitted a paper to Cognitive Systems Research describing the Planet Braitenberg simulation framework. He also completed his editorial work on a book titled Philosophers on Film: Blade Runner 2049. The book is due for publication later this year.
 
- Steven S. Gouveia prepared a manuscript for an edited book titled "Automata's Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind" (co-edited wtih Manuel Curado, Vernon Press) and finished a chapter titled "Philosophy of Mind and Reductionism".  He was accepted to give a talk at the "Science of Consciousness Conference", in Switzerland, Interlaken (June 25-28) and submitted a chapter for an edited book on Responsability and Artificial Intelligence titled "The responsability gap in Artificial Intelligence".

- Klaus Gärtner was submitting a paper on Predictive Processing and continued his work on editing the forthcoming book The Mind Technology Problem.



Febuary 2019  
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​Wed Feb 13
  • 14.00 – 15.00: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Meeting . (ID Building  0.06)
  • 15.00 – 16.00:  Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Research Seminar with Steven Gouveia on Predictive Processing and the content of consciousness: a fundamental limitation? (ID Building  0.06) more details 

Research progress:

- Robert Clowes designed and began teaching a new course in philosophy of mind in English for the Department of Philosophy at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Continuing work on editing the forthcoming book The Mind Technology Problem.

- Paul Smart outlined a predictive processing account of Alzheimer’s disease pathology. The results of this work are being prepared for submission to the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Paul also submitted a research proposal to FCT Portugal.

- Steven S. Gouveia prepared a manuscript for an edited book titled "Automata's Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind" (co-edited wtih Manuel Curado, Vernon Press) and finished a chapter titled "Philosophy of Mind and Reductionism".  He also started working on a new edited book titled "The Science and Philosophy of Predictive Processing (edited by Steven S. Gouveia, Dina Mendonça & Manuel Curado, Bloomsbury). 

- Klaus Gärtner was working on editing the book The Mind Technology Problem. Also, he was contributing to a paper on Grounding Consicousness and Micro-Physicalism and a paper on Mind-Uploading.
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- Inês Hipólito has received the Australasian Association of Philosophy PostGraduate Conference Fund, 2019 to organise the event "Perceiving and Cognising: Re-Drawing boundaries" coming up in July with the already confirmed keynotes Jakob Hohwy, Fiona Macpherson and Michael Kirchhoff.



January 2019

Research progress:

​- Paul Smart completed work on three chapters for a forthcoming edited volume titled Philosophers on Film: Blade Runner 2049. He also finalized work on Planet Braitenberg, a virtual reality environment for studies in computational situated cognition.

- Steven S. Gouveia prepared a manuscript for an edited book titled "Perception, Cognition, and Aesthetics (co-edited wtih Dena Shottenkirk & Manuel Curado, Routledge) and finished a chapter titled "A neurophilosophical account of perception", co-authored with Georg Northoff. 

- Inês Hipolito co-edited (with Kahlae) the special issue for  Philosophical Transactions. Tof the Royal Society: The notion of ‘simple proof’ (2019), in which she also co-authored (with Kahale) the paper Hilbert 24th problem. She also gave talks, at the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2018 meeting, Macquaire University (Australia) on "Culture in Mind - An Enactivist Account: Not Cognitive Penetration But Cultural Permeation". 

December 2018
Wed 19th of December Workshop on the Philosophy of Predictive Processing organised by Klaus Gaertner. Presentations will be given by Paul Richard Smart; Paweł Gładziejewski; Wanja Wiese; Robert Clowes; Klaus Gaertner.
​November, 2018
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Workshop: An Encounter of Philosophy and Psychiatry organised with Casa de Alba, Romao de Sousa foundation as part of the 3rd International Mental Health Meeting in Portugal

Fri Nov 23rd​
​Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas/UNL - Torre A, Auditório 001

​Including the talks:
14.00 – 14.15 Introduction about the Mind and Reasoning Group Rob Clowes
14.15  - 14.45 What Can Schizophrenia Teach Us About Emotions? - Dina Mendonça
14.45 – 15.15 Rethinking the Ipseity Disturbance Theory of Schizophrenia Through Predictive Processing. Robert W. Clowes
15.15 – 15.45 Why Are Delusions Pathological? - Jorge Gonçalves
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee
16.15 - 16.45 Conscious Experience and Experience Externalization - Klaus Gärtner
16.45 - 17.15  What mental illness can teach about the Self?   – Steven Gouveia
17.15 – 17.45 Presentation of the book “Schizophrenia and Common Sense Explaining the Relation Between Madness and Social Values”.
17.45 - Close


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Tues Nov 20th
Workshop on the Mechanistic Approach to Biology and Cognition organised between the Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the LMRG.
Wed Nov 14th -
  • 14.30 – 15.30: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Meeting. (ID 0.06, Edif I&D, Piso 0)
  • 15.30 – 16.30:  Rob Clowes to speak on Wide Mechanism:  (Location ID 0.06, Edif I&D, Piso 0) 
    Abstract: It has recently been proposed that 4E Cognitive Science and Mechanistic approaches to the mind can be reconciled, indeed that they are the way forward in our attempts to provide a methodology for cognitive science. But where does this leave the concept of representation? On the face of it, representations can be looked at as merely incomplete mechanistic explanations. So should we look forward to removing them altogether from our best cognitive scientific explanations?[The seminar will be a preview for the workshop of 20th November].
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October, 2018

Book Announcement:
'The Neurobiology-Psychotherapy-Pharmacology Intervention Triangle
The need for common sense in 21st century mental health'

by João G. Pereira, Jorge Gonçalves, Valeria Bizzari (Eds.)

This book intends to open the debate between three main aspects of clinical practice: psychotherapy (including psychological and philosophical influences), neurobiology and pharmacology. These three main themes are clinically applied in what we call the “Intervention Triangle”. The book will first focus on epistemologically distinct frameworks and gradually attempt to consider the integration of these three fundamental vertexes of practice. These vertexes are substantially unbalanced in the mental health field, and thus, this book tries to make sense of this phenomenon.
Unique in its interdisciplinary and comprehensive view of mental health problems and approaches, this book offers a new perspective on unidisciplinary integration that previous publications have not considered. As an innovative contribution to its field, this volume will be particularly relevant to practitioners working towards integrative frameworks. It will also be of interest to students, clinicians and researchers, in particular, those working in psychology, medicine, psychiatry, philosophy, social work, and pharmacy. 

ISBN: 978-1-62273-433-7

https://vernonpress.com/book/489


Wed Oct 17th –Klaus and Rob presenting a paper at DISSELF conference https://disself.wordpress.com/
Sun Oct 14th – Rob and Klaus's paper The Pre-Reflective Situational Self was published online by TOPOI here. (Write to Rob if you want a copy).
Mon Oct 8th –
  • 14.30 – 15.30: Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group Meeting. (Location TA 302, Torre A, FCSH Campus)
  • 15.30 – 16.30:  Klaus Gaertner will present a talk entitled Pre-Reflective Self-awareness: Invariant or Dynamic for the Mind and Reasoning Research in Progress Seminar (Location TA 302, Torre A, FCSH Campus) (See Abstract)
September, 2018
Rob Clowes presented a paper at the The Singularity Summit, Jesus College, Cambridge. This is part of the AI and The Future of Humanity Project.
August, 2018
Dina Mendonça presented the paper “What can we expect from a Situated Approach to Emotions” 24th World Congress of Philosophy, International Federation of Philosophical Societies, Peking University, Beijing, China, http://wcp2018.pku.edu.cn/yw/index.htm
July, 2018
Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group workshop  ​Thinking about Enculturation featuring the work of Richard  Menary on the 9th of July.
June, 2018
Book Launch of Schizophrenia and Common Sense: Explaining the Relation Between Madness and Social Values [Hipólito, Inês; Gonçalves, Jorge; Pereira, João G (Eds)], Sala Multiouso 2, ID Building. Including Special Guest presentation by chapter author: Professor Thomas Fuchs, Monday 25th of June at 5pm.

 
May 2018 Events and Activities

30th May, RIP Seminar with Inês Hipólito on Perception as Cognition:Beyond the Perception/Cognition Distinction , 15:00 - 16:00.

16th May, RIP Seminar Jakob Krebs on Pictorial Models, Imagination, and Magical Actions, 15:00 - 16:00

​May 10th, 12:00 (room 2.17) Reading of the text "The evolution of misbelief" by Ryan McKay and Daniel Dennett:
 
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/the-evolution-of-misbelief/F817ED84D1FFD8650D61FB61301203E8
April 2018 Events and Activities

Jakob Krebs is visiting the Mind and Reasoning group until May and will be giving a talk next month.

April 23rd Workshop on Virtuality and Mind with invited speaker Anna Ciaunica. Av. de Berna, I&D Building, ID 0.06
Workshop opening 11.00 - 11.10
Introducing the Virtual Approach to Mind. 11.10 - 11.50. (Robert Clowes)
On Being Emotionally Engaged. 11.50 - 12.30. (Dina Mendonça).
Lunch 12.30 - 14-30 
Minds and Selves: What is Virtual? 14.30 - 15.10 (Klaus Gaertner)
Virtual Self-Awareness. 15.10 - 16.30 (Anna Ciaunica)


​Jorge Gonçalves Tuesday, 3 April published in the blog Imperfect Cognitions 
http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.pt/
March 2018 Events and Activities

March 27th saw the first NOVA/O Models of Mind Reading Group which will discuss Eric Thomson & Gualtiero Piccinini´s paper Neural Representations Observed. The reading group will took place from 14.30 to 15.30. Contact Klaus Gaertner for more details.
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Our March Research In Progress seminar was given on Tuesday 20th of March and presented by Klaus Gaertner on 4E Cognition: Radical or Laid-back?

Jorge Gonçalves published Mental Disorder - The need for an acurate definition Front. Psychiatry, 12 March 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00064

February 2018 Activities & Events

On Feburary 28 at 17:00 Paul Smart gave the Lisbon Mind and Reasoning RIP seminar on Dream Machines: Predictive Processing, Generative Models, and the Mind of Society.

Paul Smart authored a chapter titled “Predicting Me: The Route to Digital Immortality?” for a forthcoming Springer volume on “The Mind-Technology Problem: Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artifacts.”
Paul Smart prepared a book proposal for an edited volume titled “Philosophers on Film: Blade Runner 2049.” The proposal was submitted to Routledge, and the book has now been approved for publication. Three of the book chapters will be authored by members of the Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group.
Paul Smart delivered a seminar on the subject of “Dream Machines: Predictive Processing, Generative Models, and the Mind of Society” (see http://www.arglab.ifilnova.pt/events/Smart_LMRG_RIP_Feb_2018)
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January 2018 Activities & Events

January 18th we had the first Mind and Reasoning Group Research Day featuring presentations from Jorge Gonçalves, Dina Mendonça, Paul Smart, Klaus Gaertner & Steven Gouveia.

Paul Smart submitted a paper titled “(Fake?) News Alert: Intellectual Virtues Required for Online Knowledge!” to the journal Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. The paper is now published online at https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3Uq.
Paul Smart is developing a computational simulation framework to support studies in computational situated cognition. The framework is code-named the Planet Braitenberg Framework and is built on top of the Unity game engine.​
December 2017 Activities & Events

21st December, Inês Hipólito, Jorge Gonçalves & João G Pereira publish their new edited book ​Schizophrenia and Common Sense: Explaining the Relation Between Madness and Social Values​.

13th December Steven Gouveia presented the RIP seminar on A Neurophilosphical Account of Perception.  ,  Torre B, T1, Second Floor, from 16:00 to 17:00.

Paul Smart has joined our group, and is also now part of the ArgLab.
November 2017 Activities & Events

Klaus Gaertner presented the RIP seminar on The Dynamics of Pre-Reflective Self Consciousness. November 15th, 16:00 - 17:00, ID Building, Room 1.05, Edif I&D, Piso 1.
October 2017 Activities & Events.
Dina Mendonça wins 5th prize for Prémio Santander for 4 indexed publications in 2016 / 2017.

Friday morning 10:00 4th October, Rob Clowes presented the online ENSO (Enactive Seminar Online) hosted and in coversation with the wonderful Marek McGann on Material Agency and Cloud Technology. It is archived here.
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Wed 3rd October, Mind & Cognition WIP Seminar with Rob Clowes,  Material Agency and Strong Agency (abstract here), 16:00 - 17:00 ​(ID Building Room  1.05, Piso 1: MAP to institute)
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September 2017 Activities & Events.

Wed 20th September, Online publication of  Paul Smart, Robert Clowes and Richard Heersmink (2017), "Minds Online: The Interface between Web Science, Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind", Foundations and Trends® in Web Science: Vol. 6: No. 1-2, pp 1-232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1800000026

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Tue 19th September, Mind & Cognition Seminar with Anna Ciaunica The Touched Self: Proximal Intersubjectivity and the Self – A Developmental Perspective (abstract here), 16:30 - 18:00 ​(ID Building Room 0.07, Ground Floor: MAP to institute)
July 2017 Activities & Events

20th July, Steven Gouveia has been elected to join our group. His profile is here and he will be present in Lisbon for meetings whenever his calendar allows over the coming months.
1st July, Jorge Gonçalves delivered the paper "Intersubjectivity and
Psychiatry" for the Cambridge's volume ""Intersubjectivity and
Values".​​

Other Updates
Jorge is preparing his part in the course  "Philosophy and Psychiatry"
(September 2017 - Associação Portuguesa de Psicopatologia) -
"Consciousness and the Problem Brain-Mind")
June 2017 Activities and Events
31st June, with Paul Smart and Richard Heersmink, Robert Clowes submitted our monograph Minds Online for publication. Smart: "Paul R., Clowes, Robert W. and Heersmink, Richard. (2017) Minds Online: The Interface between Web Science, Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind"
Vasco Correia spoke at the Paris Conference on Modeling and Using Context: "Accountability breeds response-ability".
7th June, Dina Mendonça, spoke at the Edinburgh conference "Feeling Reasons. The Role of Emotions in Reasoning". The talk is online here
6th June, Klaus Gärtner & Robert Clowes published their new paper ​"Enactivism, Radical Enactivism and Predictive Processing: What is Radical in Cognitive Science?" in the philosophy of science journal Kairos.
5th-10th June, Klaus Gärtner presented a paper with João L. Cordovil's "Phenomenal Consciousness and the Case of Quasi-Particles" at the Science of Consciousness conference 2017 in La Jolla, USA.
1st & 2nd June, Klaus Gärtner & Robert Clowes presented papers a the Crossing Borderlines Controversies and Interdisciplinarity conference.
Klaus Gärtner co-organized the IASC conference 2017 (Lisbon): “Crossing Borderlines: Controversies and Interdisciplinarity”, University of Lisbon
Ines published the paper Anatomy of Language: can we understand language games from cortical networks?. Kairos, Journal of Philosophy of Science, 18-1.

​Other Updates
Diana Soeiro has a new publication: “The built environment as an extension of human biology: Alexander, Damásio, Bratton” in, Maria João Oliveira e Filipa Castro Osório (eds), Kine[SIS]tem, From Nature to Architectural Matter, Dinâmia’CET-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, pp.314–323. URL: https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/13603 ; ISBN digital: 968-989-8862-25-9; ISBN: 978-989-8862-24-2. 
She also presented “The built environment as an extension of human biology: Alexander, Damásio, Bratton” at, Kine[SIS]tem: From Nature to Architectural Matter - International Conference + Summer School, June 19th - 30th, Lisbon, Portugal.
Jorge Gonçalves has delivered in June 2017 three abstracts for international
conferences in the subject of "Delusions".
Vasco Correia published the paper "Accountability breeds response-ability", in P. Brézillon, R. Turner & C. Penco (eds.) Modeling and Using Context, Springer, 2017, pp. 127-136.
May 2017 Activities and Events
Members of the group have been working hard to finalize their submissions for FCT call for projects, (thus everyone is very busy / stressed out).
Rob Clowes has also been finalizing the manuscript of a co-written review monograph on Internet Cognition for Foundations and Trends in Web Science.
April 2017 Activities and Events
11th April, Rob Clowes gave an invited talk titled "Current Social Technology, Near Future Social Robotics" for the Workshop on Social Robotics and Human Experience at the University of Sussex.
4th of April, Vasco Correia posted "The problem of debiasing" in the blog Imperfect Cognitions.

​Other Updates
Klaus Gärtner was a guest-lecturer in the PhD-course "Space and Time" (Space, Time and Mind) at the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon.