Ezequiel A Di Paolo (born in Buenos Aires, 1970) is a full-time Research Professor at Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science. He also has affiliations with the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. His field of research covers enactivism and embodiment in cognitive science.[1]
His work includes research in embodied cognition, dynamical systems, adaptive behaviour in natural and artificial systems, biological modelling, complex systems, evolutionary robotics, and philosophy of science. His research is in the tradition established by Varela, Thompson and Rosch,[2] which was an early example of the embodied, enactive approach to cognition.[3]
Di Paolo believes that embodiment and enactivism have the potential to increase our understanding in traditional problems of cognition,[4] and advocates that these alternative views should be explored and developed further, rather than being subsumed (or 'watered down'[2]) under more traditional frameworks, such as the cartesian dualistic model.
His promotion and exploration of embodiment and enactivism is carried on through his work in the academic consortium eSMCsArchived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine, an EU funded project to investigate the role of sensorimotor contingencies in cognition.[5]
Additionally, he is involved in Centre for Life, Mind and Society, a research group spanning complex systems in biology and self-organising systems.
He is Editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Adaptive Behavior.
Publications
Di Paolo, E. A. "Organismically-inspired robotics: Homeostatic adaptation and natural teleology beyond the closed sensorimotor loop. In K. Murase & T. Asakura (Eds.), Dynamic Systems Approach for Embodiment and Sociality: From Ecological Psychology to Robotics, International series on advanced intelligence". Magill, South Australia: Advanced Knowledge International. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (2007). "Participatory sense-making". Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 6 (4): 485–507. doi:10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9. S2CID142842155.
Di Paolo, E. A. (2010). Robotics inspired in the organism. Intellectica, 53-54, 129–162.
De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel; Gallagher, Shaun (2010). "Can social interaction constitute social cognition?". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14 (10): 441–7. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.06.009. PMID20674467. S2CID476406.
^ abPenny, Simon; Varela, Francisco J.; Thompson, Evan; Rosch, Eleanor (1995). "Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience". Leonardo. 28 (4): 337. doi:10.2307/1576207. JSTOR1576207. S2CID191391035.
^Di Paolo, Ezequiel A.; Rohde, Marieke; De Jaegher, Hanne (2010). "Horizons for the Enactive Mind: Values, Social Interaction, and Play". In Stewart, John; Gapenne, Olivier; Di Paolo, Ezequiel A. (eds.). Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. pp. 32–87. CiteSeerX10.1.1.63.9535. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014601.003.0003. ISBN978-0-262-01460-1.
^De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (2007). "Participatory sense-making". Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 6 (4): 485–507. doi:10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9. S2CID142842155.
