Dialectical Systems

Dialectical Systems

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CFP: Dialectics and the Embodied Mind Special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Confirmed contributors: Ezequiel Di Paolo, Shaun Gallagher, Laura Mojica, Kate Nave, Glenda Satne, Dave Ward. www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/cfp-d...

dialecticalsystems.euCFP: Dialectics and the Embodied Mind (special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences) - Dialectical SystemsThe enactive approach challenges the idea that the mind is confined to the individual, instead of emphasizing its emergence through dynamic interactions between self-constituting identities and their ...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
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⁉️😵‍💫🧐 > everyone [who] learns cognitive science in the Netherlands [...] actually learn[s] dynamical systems theory that is [one of the] nonrepresentationalist non-computationalist approaches to cognitive science and psychology which is very different from what we have for example, [...] in Portugal.

youtube.com#1312 Kevin Mitchell: How to Understand Individual Differences in Psychological TraitsYouTube video by The Dissenter
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A collaboration between Dialetical Systems and @braininspired.bsky.social Andrea Gambarotto speaks to Paul Middlebrooks on the relation between life and mind, and the role dialectics can play in making sense of that relation www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...

dialecticalsystems.euCognition Requires Agency - Dialectical SystemsA collaboration between Dialetical Systems and Brain Inspired: Andrea Gambarotto speaks to Paul Middlebrooks on the relaton between life and mind, and the role dialectics can play in making sense of t...
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🆕 New paper by William Bechtel & Leonardo Bich Physiological control is not a top-down hierarchy, but heterarchical architecture in which multiple control mechanisms act on the same production mechanisms www.dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

dialecticalsystems.euNew paper (2026): The last-step integrator thesis: Heterarchical control of themammalian gastrointestinal tract - Dialectical SystemsAbstract. To perform the work necessary to maintain themselves in diverse situations, organismsorchestrate the operations of a host of production mechanisms that individually performspecific physiolog...
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The dialectical underpinnings of multilevel selection Evolution isn’t flat: new levels arise through conflict and then reshape the very dynamics that brought them into being

dialecticalsystems.euThe Dialectics of Multi-Level Selection in Evolutionary Biology - Dialectical SystemsIntroduction Dialectical thinking in biology has famously been put forward by the eponymous book of Levins and Lewontin (1985). Much of the book was dedicated to the interpenetration between organisms...
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CFP: Dialectics and Life (Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10) Main topics: organism–environment coupling, critical 4E cognition, social metabolism, dialectical approaches to modeling. Abstracts due 1 June 2026 👉 www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/cfp-d...

dialecticalsystems.euCFP: Dialectics and Life — Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10 (Autumn 2026) - Dialectical SystemsThe journal Marxism & Sciences has announced a special issue on Dialectics and Life, calling for abstracts that explore the crucial relation between dialectical thinking and the complex entanglement o...
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How did regulation and agency arise before genes? Shirt-Ediss et al. model evolving protocell ecologies with the Araudia platform—showing how simple metabolic systems can “learn” to adapt to changing environments dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

dialecticalsystems.euNew Paper (2025): Modelling the prebiotic origins of regulation and agency in evolving protocell ecologies - Dialectical SystemsHow could the first living systems learn to regulate themselves before the emergence of genes? In their new paper, Ben Shirt-Ediss, Arián Ferrero-Fernández, Daniele De Martino, Leonardo Bich, Álvaro M...
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Integrating dialectical insights into cognitive science has driven advances in the enactive approach. This new paper opens a dialogue between enaction and Marxism, highlighting labor as a form of an ecological and distributed cognition link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comAn enactive account of labor - Mind & SocietyThis paper aims to build a theoretical bridge between the Marxist and enactive traditions by focusing on the concept of labor. While labor represents a central component of human experience, it remain...
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Today we celebrate the new edition of Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) from MIT Press, with a new critical apparatus by Ezequiel Di Paolo & Evan Thompson, reconnecting Varela's legacy in cognitive science to his theoretical biology dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

dialecticalsystems.euNew edition of Principles of Biological Autonomy - Dialectical SystemsToday, we celebrate the new publication of Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) by MIT Press, now accompanied by a new critical apparatus by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson.Varela’s ideas cont...
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Collin Lucken & Elmo Feiten use the enactive concept of participatory sense-making to ground public science engagement, showing how core ideas from embodied cognition can scale beyond motor coordination to illuminate social cognition in practice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comLeveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratizationOur paper explores new potentials for productive dialogue between public engagement with science (PEWS) and radical embodied cognitive science (RECS).…
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Henry Potter and @wiringthebrain.bsky.social challenge reductive views in neuroscience by introducing richer, temporally extended notions of causality and arguing to re-center cognition and the organism as genuine causal agents in behavior onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comBeyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in NeuroscienceThe search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c...

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PessoaBrain
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𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Apr 11 at noon EST USA time. Here's the paper to get the discussion going: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Everyone welcome but register ->

onlinelibrary.wiley.comBeyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in NeuroscienceThe search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c....
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Adaptivity is central to life, yet conceptually homeless. While adaptation is tied to selection, adaptivity is an ongoing organismal process—rooted in metabolism, not just evolutionary causation www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...

dialecticalsystems.euThe Philosophy of Adaptivity - Dialectical SystemsAt the core of life is adaptivity, the organismal process of adjusting to ever-changing conditions. But despite its centrality, adaptivity is a surprisingly lonely concept. Its most immediate lexical ...

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Anna Ciaunica PhD
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Happy to share that our SI in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society B was accepted 😎 Hybrid Agencies - Crossing Borders between Biological and Artificial Worlds Co-Edited with Shaun Gallagher and Takashi Ikegami We have a fantastic line up of contributions coming up soon !

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CFP: Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Journal for General Philosophy of Science) Call for papers on comparative philosophy of science is out,, ed;: Simon Lohse and Karim Bschir. Submissions until 31 March 2025. philevents.org/event/show/1...

philevents.orgTowards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science)CALL FOR PAPERS: Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science) Guest editors: Simon Lohse (Nijmegen) & Karim Bschir (St....
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A new study delves into Heidegger’s early critique of Hegel, analysing their divergent views on time and ontology. By examining their distinct conceptions of temporality, the work clarifies the essential differences between their philosophical systems. www.dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

dialecticalsystems.euNew book: Hegel and Heidegger on Time - Dialectical SystemsBy Ioannis Trisokkas. Published open-access by Cambridge University Press. Summary: This Element discusses Heidegger’s early (1924–1931) reading and critique of Hegel, which revolve around the topic o...

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Daniel S. Brooks
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If you're interested in theory in biology, please consider applying for this EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course "Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems", organized by @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy, @nrepina.bsky.social, and James DiFrisco. meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... #philsci #evobio

meetings.embo.orgVenice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory SystemsBiological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …

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PessoaBrain
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Reintroduction... I'm a neuroscientist interested in emotion-motivation-cognition interactions. Interested in conceptual/foundational issues. I also wrote a book for general audience readers called The Entangled Brain that is open access at MIT Press. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460... #neuroscience

mitpress.mit.eduThe Entangled BrainA new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cog...

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Kevin Mitchell
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And we draw on analogies with energy-based models to show how situations visually captured by Waddington's landscape can formally arise from such dynamical networks

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📝 CFA: Prospects for the Science of Enaction Special issue of Adaptive Behavior Deadline: January 27th www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/cfa-s...

dialecticalsystems.euCFA: Special Issue ‘Prospects for the Science of Enaction’ - Dialectical SystemsCFA: Prospects for the Science of Enaction Guest Editors: Russell Meyer, Jodie Russell, Marilyn StenderaDeadline for Abstracts: January 27th The editors invite abstracts for contributions to the Speci...