Philosopher of Language and Mind
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I'm interested in language as something we do. From an embodied perspective, I investigate different aspects of human cognition related to our linguistic capacities, such as linguistic knowledge, normativity, the reflexivity of language, and the origins of representations. My work contributes to an open dialogue between the philosophy of embodied cognition and recent developments in the cognitive (neuro)sciences and linguistics.
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Publications
Peer-reviewed journal papers
- Reflective Situated Normativity, Philosophical Studies, (accepted)
- A twofold tale of one mind. Revisiting REC's multi-storey story (2020) Synthese open access
- Rules as Resources: An Ecological-Enactive Perspective on Linguistic Normativity (2020) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences open access
- Attentional Actions: An Ecological-Enactive Account of Utterances of Concrete Words (2018) Psychology of Language and Communication open access
- Linguistic know-how and the orders of language (2017) Language Sciences penultimate .pdf
- Is Information Out There? (2013) ESJP open access
Papers under review
- The Reflexive Roots of Reference
- Embodying Mental Affordances,
- Metalinguistic exchanges in child language development,
Other publications
- Review of the dissertation Anticipating Affordances, by J. Bruineberg, (2019) ANTW
- Het Cognibolistische Keijzerrijk (2016) ANTW open access
- Andere geesten belichaamd [Other Minds Embodied, Dutch] (2015), in: T. de Mey (Ed.) Het nadeel van de zekerheid penultimate .pdf
Theses
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- Talking about Talking: An Ecological-Enactive Perspective on Language (PhD thesis, 2019)
- Why Radical Enactivism is not Radical Enough: A Case for Really Radical Enactivism (MA thesis, 2014)
- Qualia gediskwalificeerd: Een eliminatie van Dennett's eliminativisme [Qualia Disqualified: An Elimination of Dennett's Eliminativism, Dutch] (BA thesis, 2012)
Talks
2021
- invited An Ecological/Embodied Perspective on Language, Narrative, Cognition and Communication Colloquium, 26 January, Nijmegen, NL.
2020
- Reflective Situated Normativity with E. Rietveld, [poster, cancelled due to Corona], Ecogs 2020, 23 March, OIST Okinawa, JP.
- Habits for Higher Cognition , Habit: ontological and phenomenological approaches, 5 March, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
- Situated Normativity in Languaging with E. Rietveld, Embodied interactions, Languaging and the Dynamic Medium, 18 February, Lyon, FR.
2019
Rethinking Language in the Symposium Higher Cognition without Representation, with Z. Rucinska and D. Dronkers, OZSW Conference, 15 November, University of Amsterdam, NL.
Attentional Actions and the Complex Interplay of Time-scales in the symposium “Integrating the
ecologies of language, communication and development”, organised by C. Read & J. Raczaszek-
Leonardi, ICPA, 29 June, Groningen, NL.An Ecological-Enactive Account of Language, Faculty Colloquium Erasmus School of Philosophy, 27 February, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
2018
An Ecological-Enactive Acount of Language: Attentional Actions and Reflexivity, Getting Real About Words and Numbers Conference, 31 October, Antwerp University, BE.
Attentional Actions and Metalinguistic Reflexivity, Skilled Embodiment: Learning from Symbolizations, 27 August, Centre for Human Interactivity, Syddanks University, DK.
Reconceiving Cognition Requires Rethinking Language, Reconceiving Cognition, 29 June, Antwerp University, BE.
Reflexivity as Constraining Constraints, European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, 12 June, Montauban, FR.
Attentional Actions and Assertions, New directions in philosophy of language and linguistics, 5 June, Pontifical Lateran University Rome, IT.
2017
Towards A Radical Enactive-Ecological Account Of Content, Evolving Enactivism Workshop, 5 December, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE.
The Ontogenetic Origins of Content Through Metalinguistic Mastery, RANT workshop, 27 October, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL.
The Ontogenetic Origins of Content Through Metalinguistic Mastery, Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, 3rd Avant Conference, 21 October, Lublin, PL.
The Ontogenetic Origins of Content Through Metalinguistic Mastery, LangEnact II, 26 September, South Denmark University, Odense, DK.
The Ontogenetic Origins of Content, Workshop Getting Real About Words and Numbers, 12 June, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
2016
Enactive enlanguaging as the education of attention: the case of colour, International Conference on Language and Enaction, 1 June, Clermont Auvergne University (Blaise Pascal), FR.
Languaging as Participatory Presencing, 3rd International Conference on Interactivity, Language and Cognition, 30 June, Kingston University, London, UK.
2015
Content in an Enactivist Explanation of Linguistic Cognition, Dutch Research School of Philosophy Conference, 12 December, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL.
Content in a Radical Enactivist Account of Linguistic Cognition, Situating Cognition: Agency, Affect, and Extension, 2nd International Conference in Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, 18 October, University of Warsaw, PL.
Getting Real about Words, European Philosophy of Science Association Conference, 24 September, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE.
Content in a Radical Enactivist Account of Linguistic Cognition, Interactivity, Cognition, and the Embrained Body, 18 September, South Denmark University, Odense, DK.
Getting Real About Words, Enriching Embodied Cognition Workshop, 11 June, Bogazici University, Istanbul, TR.
Getting Real about Language: Towards an Enactivist Perspective on Linguistic Cognition, Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy, 1 May, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL.
Representation Rejected: Skepticism about using Content to Explain Cognition, Dutch Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy Conference, 28 Januari, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
Representation Rejected: An Enactivist Take on Linguistic Cognition, Dutch Flemish Day of Philosophy, 17 Januari, University of Groningen, NL.
2014
Why Radical Enactivism is not Radical Enough: A Case For Really Radical Enactivism, Summerschool on Epistemology and Cognition, August, University of Groningen, NL.
Why Radical Enactivism is not Radical Enough: A Case For Really Radical Enactivism, Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy, May, VU Amsterdam, NL.
Ranting and Raving about Representation in Explaining Cognition, Metametaphysical Club, May, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
Is Information ‘Out There’?, Sixth Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy, Januari, University of Groningen, NL.
2013
A Comparative Perspective on Rorty and Habermas, 34th Dutch-Flemish Day of Philosophy, August, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL.
Thinking Beyond the Neo-Cartesian Dualism through the Study of Emotions, The Graduate Conference of Theoretical Philosophy, April, University of Groningen, NL.
Other talks
Andere geesten belichaamd, Leidse Studiedag Scepticisme, lecture for highschool students, 10 April 2017, Leonardo college, Leiden, NL.
The Ontogenetic Origins of Content, Workshop on metalanguage, self-reflection, and content, 23 May 2017, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
Linguistic know-how and the Orders of Language, Neurophilosophy reading group, 27 October 2016, Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL.
Andere geesten belichaamd, kroegcollege [pub lecture], 25 april 2016, organised by study association ERA Rotterdam, NL.
Andere geesten belichaamd, guest lecture, 29 februari 2016, Podium O950, MIR Rotterdam, NL.
Andere geesten belichaamd, Studiedag Scepticisme ICLON (nascholing middelbare school-docenten) [refresher course for high school teachers], 20 November 2015, University of Leiden, NL.
Content in Radical Enactivism, OZSW Study Group Enactivism, 30 September 2015, University of Antwerp, BE.
Getting Real about Language: Towards an Enactivist Perspective of Linguistic Cognition, Lunchtime Seminar, 7 May 2015, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
Het geleefde lichaam in de filosofie van Jan Patočka [The lived body in the philosophy of Jan Patočka], ERA studytrip, 5 April 2015, Praag, CZ.