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The Institute of Philosophy is pleased to invite to the international research workshop Dialectics and the embodied mind<\/em> which will take place on 22 and 23 September 2025 on Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Black Box. The workshop is part of the FNR research project AUTONOMY<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAbout<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The 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 shared environments, spanning ecological and social dimensions. Enactive research has identified three key dimensions of embodiment: organismic regulation, sensorimotor coupling, and intersubjective interaction. Each of these operates as a recursively self-producing process network with its own norms of continuation. Any given situation is thus structured by a web of organic, sensorimotor, and social norms, whose unfolding involves a negotiation between these sometimes conflicting constraints. This very interplay\u2014where different levels of normativity co-determine one another\u2014is what makes the enactive perspective, in contrast to more moderately embodied approaches, fundamentally dialectical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop aims to critically examine the claim that dialectics\u2014the process of transforming difference and otherness into dynamic identity\u2014is embedded in the very nature of the enactive approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key questions include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Does the enactive approach need to make its dialectical moves more explicit and what kind of dialectics might be best suited to the task?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • How is normativity scaffolded across biological and social domains?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • What roles do evolutionary, organizational, developmental, technical, and socio-linguistic factors play in driving cognitive complexity?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • How do these perspectives account for the scaling up from biological to cognitive autonomy?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Does the enactive approach favor an additive or a transformative account of rationality?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
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    \nProgramme<\/h2>\n\n\n
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    \nMonday, 22 September 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    9.15<\/td>Welcome<\/td><\/tr>
    <\/td>Session 1: Dialectics of Recognition<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
    9.30-10.45<\/td>Italo Testa: Embodied Recognition and the Constitution of Personhood<\/td><\/tr>
    11.15-12.30<\/td>Laura Mojica: Recognition as Implicated Engagement and the Dialectical Grounding of Normativity<\/td><\/tr>
    <\/td>Session 2: Mental Institutions and Extended Life<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
    14.00-15.15<\/td>Andrea Gambarotto: Enactivizing Dialectics: From Individual to Social Normativity and Back<\/td><\/tr>
    15.45-17.00<\/td>Shaun Gallagher: Hegel and 4E Economics<\/td><\/tr>
    17.30-18.45<\/td>Ezequiel Di Paolo: Circular Economies of the Mind: Mapping Marx to the Enactive Approach<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n
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    \nTuesday, 23 September 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    <\/td>Session 3: Dialectics and Sociality<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
    9.30-10.45<\/td>Glenda Satne: The Transformative Character of Social Normativity<\/td><\/tr>
    11.15-12.30<\/td>Dietmar Heidemann: Hegel and Transformative Rationality<\/td><\/tr>
    <\/td>Session 4: Enaction and Life-Mind Continuity<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
    14.00-15.15<\/td>Kate Nave: There\u2019s no Such Thing as Schmlife: Organic Constitutivism and Escapability<\/td><\/tr>
    15.45-17.00<\/td>Dave Ward: The Dialectics of Mind-Life Continuity<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
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    \nOrganisation<\/h2>\n\n\n
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    \nAndrea Gambarotto<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Postdoctoral researcher<\/p>\n\n

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    \nDietmar Heidemann<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Full professor<\/p>\n\n

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