Papers by Julian Kiverstein
Philosophia Scientae
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Philosophia scientiae, Nov 3, 2022
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In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phen... more In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain. They argue that the mechanisms and processes that realise phenomenal consciousness can at times extend across brain, body, and the social, material, and cultural world. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein offer a state-of-the-art tour of current arguments for and against extended consciousness. They aim to persuade you that it is possible to develop and defend the thesis of extended consciousness through the increasingly influential predictive processing theory developed in cognitive neuroscience. They show how predictive processing can be given a new reading as part of a third-wave account of the extended mind. The third-wave claims that the boundaries of mind are not fixed and stable but fragile and hard-won, and always open to negotiation. It calls into question any separation of the biological from the social and cultural when thinking about the boundaries of the mind. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein show how this account of the mind finds support in predictive processing, leading them to a view of phenomenal consciousness as partially realised by patterns of cultural practice
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Frontiers in Psychology, Jul 26, 2022
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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, May 13, 2022
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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2012
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Series Editors' Preface What is Heideggerian Cognitive... more Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Series Editors' Preface What is Heideggerian Cognitive Science? J.Kiverstein Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing it Would Require Making it More Heideggerian H.L.Dreyfus Context-Switching and Responsiveness to Real Relevance E.Reitveld There Can be No Cognitive Science of Dasein M.Ratcliffe Heidegger and Cognitive Science Aporetic Reflections A.Rehberg Naturalizing Dasein and Other (Alleged) Heresies M.Wheeler Heidegger and Social Cognition S.Gallagher & R.Sete Jacobson Joint Attention and Expressivity: A Heideggerian Guide to the Limits of Empirical Investigation M.L.Talero Equipment and Existential Spatiality Heidegger, Cognitive Science and the Prosthetic Subject H.de Preester Heidegger, Space, and World J.Malpas Temporality and the Casual Approach to Human Activity T.Schatzki Index
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Feb 1, 2008
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Aug 1, 2009
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Cognitive Systems Research, Jun 1, 2022
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The debates within 4E cognitive science surrounding extended cognition turn on competing ontologi... more The debates within 4E cognitive science surrounding extended cognition turn on competing ontological conceptions of cognitive processes. The embedded theory (henceforth EMT) and the family of extended theories of cognition (henceforth EXT) disagree about what it is for a state or process to count as cognitive. Advocates of EMT continue to interpret the concept of cognition along more or less traditional lines as being constituted by computational, rule-based operations carried out on internal representational structures that carry information about the world. EXT by contrast argues that bodily actions, and the environmental resources that agents act upon, can under certain conditions count as constituent parts of a cognitive process. I show how the debate between functionalist EXT and EMT ends in deadlock without any clear winner. I finish up by looking to radical embodied cognitive science for an alternative ontology of cognition that can provide grounds for favoring EXT over EMT.
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Routledge eBooks, Apr 20, 2023
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, May 31, 2022
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Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2010
$25.00 MLVM IN U L. is one of a new breed— part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuro... more $25.00 MLVM IN U L. is one of a new breed— part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically alter- ing the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates ...
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Routledge eBooks, Apr 28, 2020
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2012
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Psychological Review, Mar 1, 2023
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Frontiers in Psychology
The five articles under this Research Topic constructively and critically discuss various dimensi... more The five articles under this Research Topic constructively and critically discuss various dimensions and implications of The Theory of Thought-Shapers (TTS) (Hanna and Paans, 2021), thereby collectively making a strong case for its cogency and truth. TTS says that thought-shapers—i.e., mental frames, especially including metaphors, analogies, images, schemata, stereotypes, symbols, and templates—partially causally determine, form, and normatively guide (i.e., shape) our essentially embodied human minds-&-lives. Such shaping can occur more negatively, by means of mechanical, constrictive thought-shapers, or more positively, by organic, generative thought-shapers. TTS, which is empirically testable, is embedded within (a) a fundamental metaphysics of the mind-body relation and mental causation, the essential embodiment theory (Hanna and Maiese, 2009), and (b) a general theory of how social institutions shape people’s lives for worse or for better, the mind-body politic (Maiese and Hanna, 2019). Against that theoretical backdrop, these five articles begin to reveal both the potential dangers of thought-shaping, and how thought shaping might be implemented in a more constructive way.
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Scientific Reports, 2022
Depersonalisation is a common dissociative experience characterised by distressing feelings of be... more Depersonalisation is a common dissociative experience characterised by distressing feelings of being detached or ‘estranged’ from one’s self and body and/or the world. The COVID-19 pandemic forcing millions of people to socially distance themselves from others and to change their lifestyle habits. We have conducted an online study of 622 participants worldwide to investigate the relationship between digital media-based activities, distal social interactions and peoples’ sense of self during the lockdown as contrasted with before the pandemic. We found that increased use of digital media-based activities and online social e-meetings correlated with higher feelings of depersonalisation. We also found that the participants reporting higher experiences of depersonalisation, also reported enhanced vividness of negative emotions (as opposed to positive emotions). Finally, participants who reported that lockdown influenced their life to a greater extent had higher occurrences of depersonal...
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We report the results of an academic survey into the theoretical and methodological foundations, ... more We report the results of an academic survey into the theoretical and methodological foundations, common assumptions, and the current state of the field of consciousness research. The survey consisted of 22 questions and was distributed on two different occasions of the annual meeting of the Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC, 2018 and 2019). We examined responses from 166 consciousness researchers with different backgrounds (e.g., philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, computer science) and at various stages of their careers (e.g., junior/senior faculty, graduate/undergraduate students). The results reveal that there remains considerable discussion and debate between the surveyed researchers about the definition of consciousness and the way it should be studied. To highlight a few observations, a majority of respondents believe that machines could have consciousness, that consciousness is a gradual phenomenon in the animal kingdom and that unconscious processi...
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Papers by Julian Kiverstein
I argue that the debate about extended cognition requires a mark of the cognitive if it is to be settled. A mark of the cognitive consists of properties that distinguish cognitive from non-cognitive processes. The debate so far has assumed either explicitly or implicitly a mark of the cognitive that appeals to representation. I argue that the best case for extended cognition can be made from within radical embodied cognitive science that rejects this commitment to representation.