Call: SPEAKING BODIES: Embodied Cognition at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology and AI

SPEAKING BODIES
Embodied Cognition at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
May 13-15, 2020
Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
http://embodiedcognition2020.devpsychology.ro/

Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15th, 2019

Keynote speakers:

• Prof. Angelo CANGELOSI, University of Manchester, UK: Developmental Robotics for Language Learning, Trust and Theory of Mind
• Prof. Shaun GALLAGHER, University of Memphis, USA: Throwing stones from a glass house: Mechanistic causality and enactive constitution.
• Prof. Robert GOLDSTONE, Indiana University, USA: Training Perception and Action to do the Right Thing
• Prof. John E. JOSEPH, University of Edinburgh, UK: TBA

The assumption that cognition is fundamentally linked to the body and to the environment is recognized more and more as a possible key to understanding the human mind. In order to think or to speak, one must possess not only the capacity to use one’s intelligence, but also the ability to use the body in a certain way. The present conference aims at thoroughly analysing the link between cognition and the body; and, as a starting point in our discussions, we propose the critical orientation of Embodied Cognition. Inspired by this approach, we strongly encourage inter/multi-disciplinary approaches.

Scholars, both junior and senior, from domains such as philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and artificial intelligence/robotics are invited to present original theoretical and empirical research papers that discuss any aspect of Embodied Cognition, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Philosophical basis of embodied cognition (e.g., phenomenology, pragmatism, etc.);
• Post-cognitivist approaches in psychology (e.g., embodied cognition, situated cognition; distributed cognition, extended cognition, embedded cognition);
• Phenomenology of embodiment;
• Embodied language acquisition and processing;
• Body and language/speaking in the psychoanalytic tradition;
• The embodiment of abstract thinking;
• Enactivist approaches in psychology, philosophy and other fields;
• Skills, abilities and dispositions;
• Performance studies in arts, sports and other areas;
• Embodied learning;
• Embodied emotions;
• Artificial intelligence and embodiment (machine learning, robotics);
• Multimodal approaches in linguistics and anthropology;
• Gestures and language;
• Dynamic systems approach;
• Complex systems, collective intelligence;
• Epistemology and methodology of research in embodied cognition;
• Neurocentrism in the age of embodied cognition;
• Other

REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION

Please visit http://embodiedcognition2020.devpsychology.ro/index.php/registration

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Anca ANDREICA, professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Cristian BODEA, researcher, Dept. of Social and Human Sciences, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
• Ion COPOERU, professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Codruţa CUCEU, researcher, Dept. of Social and Human Sciences, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
• Anamaria CUREA, lecturer, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Lucia FAICIUC, researcher, Dept. of Social and Human Sciences, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
• Thea IONESCU, assoc. prof., Dept. of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Horia F. POP, professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Mihaela ŢĂRANU, PhD, CogNovo, UK

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Anca ANDREICA, professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Oana BENGA, professor, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Cristian BODEA, researcher, Dept. of Social and Human Sciences, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
• Antonino BONDI, associate researcher, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
• Mindaugas BRIEDIS, associate professor, Vilnius
• Virgil CIOMOŞ, professor, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca / Romanian Academy – Cluj branch
• Ion COPOERU, professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Dan CRISTEA, professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, corr. member of the Romanian Academy
• Codruţa CUCEU, researcher, Dept. of Social and Human Sciences, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
• Anamaria CUREA, lecturer, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Denis ENĂCHESCU, professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest
• Lucia FAICIUC, researcher, Dept. of Social and Human Sciences, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
• Agustin IBANEZ, professor, Director of INCYT (INECO-CONICET-FAVALORO, Argentina); Atlantic Fellow (GBHI-UCSF, US); Universidad Adolfo Ibanez (Chile)
• Thea IONESCU, assoc. prof., Dept. of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Henri LUCHIAN, professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi
• Fajkowska MAŁGORZATA, professor, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Josita MAOUENE, associate professor, Grand Valley State University
• Adrian OPRE, professor, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Horia F. POP, professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University
• Andreas ROEPSTORFF, professor, Interacting Minds Centre, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
• Ádám TAKÁCS, associate professor, Eötvös Loránd University from Budapest
• Dylan TRIGG, FWF Lise Meitner Senior Fellow, University of Vienna
• Mihaela ŢĂRANU, PhD, CogNovo, UK
• Somogy VARGA, associate professor, University of Memphis

To be completed

CONTACT

Please visit http://embodiedcognition2020.devpsychology.ro/index.php/contact