UAEU Cog Sci Program

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The winner of the Robotics for Good Award is...

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Educational Neuroscience Conference - February 28-29

International Conference - Educational Neuroscience The purpose of the Conference in Educational Neuroscience is to bridge the gap between education and neuroscience. It offers an outstanding venue for neuroscientists, educationalists, and psychologists to present emerging science in the field of brain, mind and education, to learn from experts, coll…

Don't miss our Philosophy Research Series, about extended and extensive cognition. Tonight, Monday 7th of December 2015, at 5pm in room C1-0040.

"Extensive pain"
István Aranyosi (Bilkent University)

One of the important insights of the radicalized enactive and embodied approach propounded by Hutto and Myin (2012) involves the observation that instead of viewing mental states as sometimes extended, as champions of the Extended Mind Hypothesis do, we should rather view them as extensive, that is, in a way that makes it the default condition that mental states are partly constituted by extra—cranial facts. In this paper I consider a type of mental state – pain -- that has not yet been the focus of attention for extended mind theorists, yet, I will argue it is a very fitting example for the more radical version of extensive mind that Hutto and Myin champion. My argument will be based on some theoretical and empirical data on both pain embodiment in the Peripheral Nervous System and social modulation of pain experience.

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Today Gulfnews published an excellent preview of our upcoming event on social robotics!

UAE event will explore the social side of robots Symposium is a joint venture between UAE University and New York University Abu Dhabi

1st Joint UAE Symposium on Social Robotics - the official program is out. Don't miss this event at UAE University and NYU Abu Dhabi!

https://www.facebook.com/download/924732187564033/Social%20Robotics%20Program%20-%20Booklet%20Final%20Redux.pdf

On the nature of computation

Does Computation Require Representation? Most of the philosophers who discuss computation are interested in computation because they are interested in the computational theory of cognition. Cognitive systems are typically assumed to repre...

Many of our beliefs about the brain are put in perspective by this.

Man born with "virtually no brain" has advanced math degree The subject of this paper grew up with a normal cognitive and social life, and didn't discover his hydrocephalus -- which had all but obliterated his brain -- until he went to the doctor for an unr...

'Mental Representations
The foundation of Cognitive Science?'
Workshop Ruhr-Universität Bochum September 21-23, 2015

Mental Representations The foundation of Cognitive Science? Workshop Ruhr-Universität Bochum...

Situating Cognition Conference - October 15-18 2015

CFP: Situating Cognition: Agency, Affect, and Extension The organizers of the second edition of the international conference in Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, entitled SITUATING COGNITION: AGENCY, AFFECT, AND EXTENSION, welcome proposals for submi...