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Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Visiting Research Fellow news On 14th of January 09, I will talk about Interaction and Direct Perception
at Goldsmiths College in London (Whitehead Lectures in "Cognition, Computation and Culture"). New paper forthcoming in Consciousness and Cognition (09).
I discuss Shaun Gallagher's work on direct perception and relate it to participatory sense-making.
Here is the
revised draft. See also Publications below - please email me if you'd like an eprint. I am invited to speak at
Enacting Intersubjectivity: Paving the way for a dialogue between cognitive science, social cognition
and neuroscience in Lugano, Switserland, 13-14 February 2009 August 29-1 Sep 08: workshop on
Enactive Approaches to Social Cognition question What is the role of interaction dynamics in how we understand each other
in everyday encounters?
research
Putting the interaction process at the centre of the
study of social understanding entails a detailed and focused examination of it.
This is being done in the social sciences (cf. interaction studies, conversation analysis, context analysis,...),
but it is a new idea in philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences.
In my doctoral dissertation, I put forward an embodied, interactional framework of interpersonal understanding
that is closely affiliated with the enactive approach and dynamical systems.
One of the main aims of my research is to take recent embodied approaches to social cognition further.
In the dissertation I make a start with this by extending the enactive notion of sense-making
into the social domain, which allows me to characterise social cognition as participatory sense-making.
This is based on taking the interaction process seriously, and connecting the interpersonal coordination of movements
(incl. speech) in interaction with the coordination of sense-making activities. (For more details, see De Jaegher and
Di Paolo (2007) below.)
I also apply the idea of participatory sense-making to the disorder of autism, initially to have a testbed
for my ideas, but eventually I would like to see what the idea can mean for the diagnosis and remediation of the disorder.
Even though most of my work to date is theoretical, I draw on empirical research from a wide range of disciplines
including anthropology and linguistics, evolutionary robotics, minimal systems research, developmental,
experimental and clinical psychology, and I aim to do empirical work in one or two of these areas myself
in the future. publications De Jaegher, H (forthcoming) Social understanding through direct perception?
Yes, by interacting. Consciousness and Cognition
Revised draft De Jaegher, H and E Di Paolo (2008) Making sense in participation.
An enactive approach to social cognition.
In Enacting Intersubjectivity: A Cognitive and Social Perspective to the Study of Interactions.
Morganti, F, A Carassa and G Riva (eds). Amsterdam: IOS Press
abstract *De Jaegher, H and E Di Paolo (2007)
Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cognition.
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485-507
paper (pdf) Di Paolo, E, M Rohde and H De Jaegher (Forthcoming) Horizons for the enactive
mind: Values, social interaction and play.
In: Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science.
Stewart, J, O Gapenne and E Di Paolo (eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
final draft dphil thesis
Here is the pdf file of my
dphil thesis entitled
Social Interaction Rhythm and Participatory Sense-Making. An Embodied,
Interactional Approach to Social Understanding, with Some Implications for Autism. cv
My CV can be downloaded here (pdf). conference presentations and invited talks De Jaegher, H and Di Paolo, E (2009) "Implications of the enactive definition of
the social" Enacting Intersubjectivity, Lugano, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switserland,
13-14 Feb
De Jaegher, H (2009) Invited talk (Whitehead Lecture in Cognition, Computation
and Culture) Interaction and Direct Perception, Goldsmiths College, London, 14 Jan De Jaegher, H (2008) "Social understanding through direct perception?
Yes, by interacting." Life and Mind seminar,
University of Sussex, 26 Nov
Fuchs, T and De Jaegher, H (2008) "Non-representational intersubjectivity"
DISCOS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self, University
of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 13-15 Nov De Jaegher, H (2008) "Enacting Autism: An intercorporeal and intersubjective
perspective" Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity Conference, University College Dublin, 6-7 June De Jaegher, H and E Di Paolo (2007) "Jointly shaping meaning: the interactional generation
and transformation of semiotic media" The First Conference of the Swedish Association for
Language and Cognition, Lund University, 29 Nov-1 Dec
abstract De Jaegher, H (2007) "Participatory Sense-Making: Between embodied and narrative
alternatives to mindreading" Self, Intersubjectivity and Social Neuroscience.
From Mind and Action to Society, Torun, Poland, 20-22 Sep De Jaegher, H (2007) "Participatory Sense-Making and the Narrative Practice Hypothesis"
Narrative Alternatives to Theories of Mind, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, 12-15 Jul
abstract De Jaegher, H (2006) "Are people with autism the mindreaders here?" European Society for Philosophy
and Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, 24-28 Aug
abstract De Jaegher, H, R Wood and E Di Paolo (2006) "How does interactional coordination
come about? Probing situated social cognition" Situated Cognition: Perspectives from
Phenomenology and Science, Durham University, Durham, UK 18-20 Aug
abstract De Jaegher, H and S Torrance (2005) "The Experience of Autism: An Enactive Approach"
Constructing Consciousness, Mind and Being. British Psychological Society, Oxford, 16-18 Sep
abstract De Jaegher, H and S Torrance (2005) "Enactive Perception and the Experience of Autism"
Perception, Intersubjectivity and Development, Middlesex University/UCL Medical School, London, 24 Jun
workshop program Di Paolo, E and H De Jaegher (2005) "Inter-action matters: sketches of a radical enactive approach
to social understanding" Perception, Intersubjectivity and Development, Middlesex Uni/UCL Medical School,
London, 24 Jun
workshop program De Jaegher, H (2004) "Minds in Synchrony" First Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy
and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Barcelona, 3-6 Jul
poster De Jaegher, H (2003) "One Body is Not Enough: Autism and Development" Intersubjectivity and Embodiment.
Perspectives from Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Higher Institute for Philosophy, Leuven, 15-16 Sep
abstract De Jaegher, H (2003) "No Cognition without Development: Perception, Intersubjectivity and Autism"
Enactive Consciousness: Perception, Intersubjectivity and Empathy, British Psychological Society, Oxford, 28-29 Jun
abstract De Jaegher, H (2003) "On autism, social cognition and perception-action" The 16th White House Papers.
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
paper
De Jaegher, H (2002) "How autism shows the importance of social cognition and low-level explanations of cognition"
The 15th White House papers. Graduate research in cognitive and computing sciences at Sussex
paper work I am involved with the project "Minimal perceptual crossing. A kinaesthetic-tactile
feedback experimental platform" at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex
(funded with an internal strategic research fund). Until 31 July 2007, I was research assistant to the
Philosophy Group at the
University of Hertfordshire. I assisted with grant applications,
proofreading and copy-editing staff manuscripts and articles, editing volumes and the organisation of international
conferences. Between February and September 2005, I was a research assistant with Prof. Steve Torrance,
Middlesex University, London, on the project: "Autism and the Enactive Mind: Between the Object
and the Social Realms". See De Jaegher and Torrance (2005; 2005) above. We organised a
workshop. I worked as a tutor at the Sussex Autistic Society
for five years, until August 2007. links Marie Curie Research Training Network Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self
(DISCOS) Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, DE Centre for Research in Cognitive Science
(COGS) contact: h ... de
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