Connectionists: Double Book Symposium - Kate Nave and Jakob Hohwy - International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of Mind

[Carlos Barth]

Dear friends, 

I believe the following announcement might be of interest.

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The ISPSM (International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the
Mind) announces a 

DOUBLE BOOK SYMPOSIUM

On:

A Drive to Survive - The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life
By Kate Nave;

&

The Self-Evidencing Agent - Mind, Existence and Predictive Processing
By Jakob Hohwy

When:
Tuesday May 12, h. 10:00 AM CEST 

Where:
Online, as usual

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Can the Free Energy Principle/Predictive Processing illuminate the sort of
being we are? This symposium explores two important - and importantly different
- ways to answer the question. Kate Nave’s book offers a negative answer,
  grounded in the enactivist tradition. Hohwy’s book offers a positive,
internist and representationalist answer.

By placing Nave’s and Hohwy’s opposite account in critical conversation, this
double book symposium explores the Free Energy Principle and the various,
opposite ways in which it can be interpreted. It also sheds light on a number
of foundational topics in cognitive science, including the nature of
representation, the relevance of embodiment, the complex, tangly relation
between our pragmatic and epistemic grip on the world, and the normativity -
biological or epistemic - governing that grip. 

Organized by:
The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of Mind
https://www.ispsmind.com

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Best, 

-- 
Carlos Barth
https://cbarth.me

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