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Ed Baggs

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University of Southern Denmark Cognitive science, perception, culture

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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks to Scott Aikin for this fun interview. Viewing is recommended especially you want to watch me make a bunch of strange hand gestures. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k76P...
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Vanderbilt Philosophy Interviews - Anthony Chemero
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spread the word please! And make sure to come, EWEP is always a friendly, welcoming and interesting event!
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 We will be hosting the European Workshop on Ecological Psychology in Nyborg, Denmark 22-25 June, 2027. Deadline for submission of abstracts for talks, posters, and symposiums is February 5 ewep2027.github.io
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EWEP 2027 — The 17th European Workshop on Ecological Psychology | EWEP 2027 — 17th European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, June 22-25, 2027
June 22–25, 2027, Nyborg, Denmark
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dimensions of Radical Embodiment returns next year with DRE4 at the University of Bristol! July 26-27, 2027 Deadline for submissions January 11 sites.google.com/view/dre-4-b...
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Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 4
The 4th instalment of the Dimensions of Radical Embodiment Conference series will take place at the University of Bristol on 26-27th July 2027. The conference focuses on Radical Embodied Cognition, E...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Preprint here osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New: Psychologists are recognizing their role in promoting action on the climate crisis. To what extent can perception science contribute? We argue perception is fundamental to climate action, and has been overlooked. doi.org/10.1080/1040... w/ Sarah Trasmundi and @sunevork.bsky.social
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Miguel Segundo Ortin @segundo-ortin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hey! Do you know anyone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. about ecological validity in comparative cognitive science? If so, @susanamonso.com and I are looking for them! Please, share and distribute!
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 07/09/2026
Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!
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Call for expressions of interest: PhD position
The Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation is about to publish a call for pre-doctoral scholarships (FPI) adhered to scientific projects that have been approved for funding in 2026. We invite …
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New book! Compiled by Manuel Heras-Escribano and me. Reed’s work was prescient and is definitely still worth reading. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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The Selected Writings of Edward S. Reed | Manuel Heras-Escribano, Anth
The Selected Writings of Edward S. Reed brings to light the groundbreaking contributions of one of the most original thinkers in ecological psychology and
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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Virtual lecture I offered at the Cognitive Institute in Istanbul recently released. youtu.be/v6XujmyKgrI
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Replacing Functional Localization with Psycho-Neural-Behavioral Constraint - Michael Anderson (PhD)
YouTube video by CogIST
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception
A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.
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David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Here's a really nice paper by @edbaggs.bsky.social on "James J. Gibson’s affordance examples". The affordance idea is often glossed as about "possibilities for action". Anyone who actually reads Gibson will see many examples that don't fit that schema. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our thematic collection on Progress in radical embodiment is now published in the May 2026 issue of Topoi Issue here link.springer.com/journal/1124... Our editorial introduction here doi.org/10.1007/s112... @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @guicogsci.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
And here is our introduction to the collection, which includes an overview of radical embodied cognitive science as a research program @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @guicogsci.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Leeds Beckett School of Humanities and Social Sciences has funding for 5 UK fees-only PhD studentships - many projects available, including one with me on skill acquisition across the lifespan - details here. Drop me a line if interested in working with me!
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School of Humanities and Social Sciences Studentships | Research students | Leeds Beckett University
Funded PhD opportunities across our academic schools give you the chance to work on a specific research project and have your fees funded by our university and/or an external partner organisation. The...
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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science @ucpews.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc! Anyone who will earn a PhD in a related discipline with interest in public engagement is encouraged to apply. Please share widely! More details and apply here: jobs.uc.edu/job/Postdoct... #SciComm #philsci 🧪
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Public Engagement with Science
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Public Engagement with Science
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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We (@edbaggs.bsky.social, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social, @guicogsci.bsky.social, & I) have organised the conference "Dimensions of Radical Embodiment" for the last few years [Stay tuned for the next one!]. And we just edited a special issue around it. Here's the intro: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Introduction: Progress in Radical Embodiment - Topoi
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Right. I was a reviewer for this paper of his that makes the same distinctions. I found the distinctions a bit unclear there, as I remember. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Frontiers | Picturing Organisms and Their Environments: Interaction, Transaction, and Constitution Loops
Changing conceptions of the relation between organisms and their environments make up a crucial chapter in the history of psychology. This may be approached ...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I haven't read that one. Looks ambitious. Why do you ask?
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Matthieu de Wit @dewitmm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Really enjoyed this discussion on Brain Inspired. We talk about how EP is currently showing up in the mainstream, and how it might be done better. We also talk about neuro developments within the ecological community itself. Thanks for leading us through it, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social!
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is not necessarily an obstacle to applying ecological psychology to animal psychology or to sports, but it is an obstacle to applying it to human social psychology, which is what I've always been interested in.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The issue with collapsing the environment of the individual and the environment of the species is that it implies some standard or average body that is representative of the whole species. Whose body?
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I've never experienced what the world looks like from a woman's body but I am persuaded that it would not be exactly the same as what I experience. I've never had to rely on a wheelchair to get around but if I ever do I imagine I will notice things I hadn't noticed before.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Alternatively, the environment didn't change, only my body did. But then in what sense are the two terms codefining?
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
As a child I used to like climbing ropes and crawling under tables. Now I don't like bending down. Did my environment change? If the environment is codefined by my body then it must be the case that my environment changed.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Gibson also says animal and environment are codefining terms, which is profound and challenging. What he glosses over is that our bodies change over time, and other people's bodies are different from ours.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"It's important for Gibson that the environment of the species and the environment of the individual actually just be two ways to talking about the same actual thing." Agreed, that's definitely important for Gibson. His solution, though, is cakeist. He simply declares them to be the same thing.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It's about why we Gibonians can't seem to agree on our definitions for basic and supposedly central concepts. I still think Gibson's ambiguity about the environment explains much of our subsequent confusion.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I agree with much of this. Would love to read your further thoughts on the chapter. Personally I gave up on the umwelt term and I'm skeptical about the project of unifying ecological psychology and enactivism. The Third sense of environment chapter isn't about enactivism, though.
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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Luis Favela and I just finished editing a special issue on dynamical cognitive science for topiCS. The great contributors of the issue talk a little bit about what happened in the last 30 years, where we are now, and where we are heading to. Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...
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Dynamical Cognitive Science! Wherefore Art Thou?
How has dynamical systems theory—especially the dynamical hypothesis—influenced the cognitive sciences since the 1990s? This topic brings together informatics, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, ...
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now. cup.columbia.edu/book/intertw...
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Intertwined Creatures | Columbia University Press
In one common view, the mind is immaterial, internal, and invisible. From this perspective, the mind is inherently individual and isolated: It is unknowable ... | CUP
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The real question: What comes after post-anti-representationalism?
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
First ICPA in a zoo?
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Call for papers: 2026 International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) in Omaha, NE, June 23–26, 2026 icpa2026omaha.com (please RT!)
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ICPA - ICPA 2026
Welcome to the 2026 International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). This year, we meet in Omaha, Nebraska, bringing the international ecological psychology community together in a setting th...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The last paper in the collection: David Sanchez discusses the problem of object classification for ecol psych. Gibson said that to perceive an affordance is not to classify an object. So how to explain object classification? Sanchez argues it's an embodied social practice doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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The Social Class of Things: Object Perception from an Eco-Social Perspective - Topoi
Object perception is usually regarded in cognitive science as a matter of classification, in which we represent objects as belonging to a certain class that provides them with semantic content. The ma...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We're hosting a PhD school in Odense, 7-9 January 2026 on Cognitive processes in social settings (will be in English!). Deadline for registration extended to Friday 19 December at noon. www.conferencemanager.dk/kognitivepro...
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Kognitive processer i sociale sammenhænge
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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A little bit of spam, but this one is honestly one of my favourite papers I've participated in. I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
At last, the final publication in 'Cognitive Technologies and their Histories': the editorial introduction to the issue in TopiCS, by myself and @helenamiton.bsky.social. 4.5 years since our initial @cogscisociety.bsky.social panel. Free access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories
Cognitive technologies are socially acquired and culturally evolved systems whose primary function is cognitive. There is a tremendous untapped opportunity for a broad range of disciplines across the...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Jonathan Bowen re-examines Köhler's classic studies of insight problem solving in apes. He suggests that while the Gestalt psychologists held that insight requires mental re-organization, it's possible that the re-organization really occurs at the ecological scale doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Toward a Theory of Direct Insight - Topoi
While James Gibson is often seen as rebelling against the Gestalt psychologists of the Berlin School, he shared their “phenomenological attitude”: the commitment to taking a rigorous description of di...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Christian Kronsted asks how embodied cognition theory can inform education. He argues that an understanding of affordances can inform classroom activities that promote "playful complexity" doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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A Remedy against Cognitive Load: Creating Playful Complexity in Activity and Inquiry-Based Learning - Topoi
Critical thinking and inquiry are considered cornerstones of 21st-century skills that must be taught via our education systems. Two growing approaches to teaching these skills are activity-based learn...
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...
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2026 Conference
Call for Papers: Science and Technology in the Anthropocene April 2 – 3, 2026 A conference about human experience in a world with non-biological intelligent systems and the environmental prob…
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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"meaningful affordances" "bio-mechanical affordances" "mental affordances" "non-representational affordances" Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Marta Benenti discusses the potential role of affordances in aesthetic experiences, e.g. joy induced by listening to music. She suggests affordances can be "opportunities for emotional regulation" of the body doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Aesthetic Experience in Light of Affective Affordances - Topoi
Among the most pressing questions in aesthetics is that concerning the role of emotions in aesthetic experiences. In this article I try to provide an answer to this question by exploiting the explanat...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Radical enactivists distinguish between basic minds and content-involving minds. Manuel Heras-Escribano challenges this two-storey story about minds. He thinks its possible to treat these two kinds of minds as belonging on a single continuum doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Radical Enactivism and the Neo-Pragmatist Problem of the Origins of Content: A Radical Embodied Intervention - Topoi
Neo-pragmatists claim that individual intelligence derives from socio-normative practices and not the other way round. However, this leads to the neo-pragmatist problem of the origins of content, whic...
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Radical embodied memory - new preprint from Robyn Wilford and Mike Anderson osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
New paper out today with Zach Peck, “A radical embodied account of responsibility”. Not open access alas. Hit me up if you want a copy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A Radical Embodied Account of Responsibility - Topoi
In this paper, we argue that radical embodied cognitive science implies an ethics of responsibility that prioritizes what we refer to as taking collective responsibility. By taking responsibility, we ...
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Sune Vork Steffensen @sunevork.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@edbaggs.bsky.social, @valtour.bsky.social, Sarah Bro Trasmundi, and yours truly teach a Ph.D. course on Cognitive Processes in Social Settings - at Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, January 7-9, 2026.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@zachpeck.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social argue that radical embodiment has implications for ethics - if embodiment erodes the boundaries of the self, does it also erode the boundaries of moral agency? Happily, feminist philosophers have thought carefully about this doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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A Radical Embodied Account of Responsibility - Topoi
In this paper, we argue that radical embodied cognitive science implies an ethics of responsibility that prioritizes what we refer to as taking collective responsibility. By taking responsibility, we ...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Andrea Gambarotto and Thomas van Es argue that in order to adequately incorporate social processes into its theory, enactivism needs to become more dialectical, and more Hegelian doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back - Topoi
This paper examines the relation between embodiment and sociality within the enactive approach, highlighting the continuity between biological autonomy and social normativity. The central claim is tha...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Luis Favela discusses an important problem for radical embodiment - how to conduct empirical science while insisting that the system under study is non-decomposable. He thinks emergence provides the answer doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Emergence Makes the Science of Radical Embodiment Effective - Topoi
Radical embodiment faces two interrelated challenges. The first concerns what it offers metaphysically and epistemically as a comprehensive investigative framework that approaches it criticizes do not...
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