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8:00 AM - 8:10 AM (Montreal, Canada)

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM (Chile)

09:00 AM to 09:10 AM (Brazil)

01:00 PM to 01:10 PM (Portugal)

02:00 PM to 02:10 PM (Central Europe)

Welcome of participants and presentation of speakers

Francisco Loiola - Master of ceremonies

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08:10 AM to 08:55 AM (Montreal, Canada)
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8:10 AM - 8:55 AM (Chile)

09:10 AM to 09:55 AM (Brazil)

01:10 PM to 01:55 PM (Portugal)

02:10 PM to 02:55 PM (Central Europe)

Pure and applied phenomenology

Dan Zahavi

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At its core, phenomenology is a philosophical endeavour. Given its distinctly philosophical nature, one might reasonably wonder whether it can offer anything of value to positive science. Can it at all inform empirical work? There can, however, be no doubt about the answer to these questions. For more than a century, phenomenology has provided crucial inputs to a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities, including psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Within the last few decades, phenomenology has also been an important source of inspiration, not only for theoretical debates within qualitative research but also for ongoing research within the cognitive sciences. But what is the best way to practice, use and apply phenomenology in a non‐philosophical context? How deeply rooted in phenomenological philosophy must the empirical research be in order to qualify as phenomenological? How many of the core commitments of phenomenology must it accept? In my talk, I will discuss and assess some different answers to these questions.

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09:20 AM to 10:05 AM (Montreal, Canada)
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9:20 AM - 10:05 AM (Chile)

10:20 AM to 11:05 AM (Brazil)

02:20 PM to 03:05 PM (Portugal)

03:20 PM to 04:05 PM (Central Europe)

The circularity of the embodied mind

Thomas Fuchs

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The lecture explores the concept of circularity as a means of explaining the relation between the phenomenology of lived experience and the dynamics of organism-environment interactions. It will be developed in a threefold way: (1) as the circular structure of embodiment, which manifests itself (a) in the homeostatic cycles between brain and body, (b) in the sensorimotor cycles between brain, body and environment, (c) in the interdependence of an organism’s dispositions of sense-making and the affordances of the environment; (2) as the circular causality which characterizes the relation of parts and whole within the living organism as well as within the organism-environment system; (3) as the circularity of process and structure in development and learning. Here I will argue that subjective experi¬ence constitutes a process of sense-making that entrains neurophysiological processes so as to form modified neuronal structures, which in turn enable altered future interactions. On this basis, embodied experience may ultimately be conceived as the integral of current organism-environment interactions, which has a top-down, formative or ordering effect on physiological processes. 

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10:30 AM to 11:15 AM (Montreal, Canada)
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10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (Chile)

11:30 AM to 12:15 AM (Brazil)

03:30 PM to 04:15 PM (Portugal)

04:30 PM to 05:15 PM (Central Europe)

Pragmatism in cognitive science: Before and after enactivism

Shaun Gallagher

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In recent years numerous researchers have discussed a pragmatic turn in cognitive science. The general consensus is that this turn, or return to pragmatism is closely tied to the advent of non-representational embodied cognition (EC) sometimes referred to as 4E (embodied, embedded, extended and enactive) cognition. In some regards the pragmatic turn just is this turn to embodied action-oriented cognition that came to the fore starting in the 1990s. I’ll argue, however, that this is an oversimplification in a number of ways. First, in regard to the timing; second in regard to how pragmatism may have already been influencing mainstream cognitivists even prior to the turn to EC; and third, in regard to how pragmatism relates, somewhat unevenly, to the variety of EC theories. 

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11:35 AM to 12:00 PM (Montreal, Canada)

11:35 AM - 12:00 AM (Chile)

12:35 PM to 01:00 PM (Brazil)

04:35 PM to 05:00 PM (Portugal)

05:35 PM to 06:00 PM (Central Europe)

Debate and closure

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Break (1 hour)

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01:00 PM to 01:10 PM (Montreal, Canada)

01:00 AM - 01:10 AM (Chile)

02:00 PM to 02:10 PM (Brazil)

06:00 PM to 06:10 PM (Portugal)

07:00 PM to 07:10 PM (Central Europe)

Welcome of participants and presentation of speakers

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01:10 PM to 01:55 PM (Montreal, Canada)
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01:10 AM - 01:55 AM (Chile)

02:10 PM to 02:55 PM (Brazil)

06:10 PM to 06:55 PM (Portugal)

07:10 PM to 07:55 PM (Central Europe)

Theoretical, methodological and practical development of a pragmatism-inspired ethics and its links to action

Eric Racine, Ariane Quintal and Abdou Simon Senghor

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Pragmatist thinking links up with certain aspects of enaction as developed by its main theorists (Gallagher, 2014). In order to reflect on the synergies between these movements, we will present the orientations of a research program dedicated to the theoretical, methodological and practical exploration of pragmatist-inspired ethics. First, we will review the pragmatist ethics developed by our interdisciplinary research team working in health ethics. We will emphasize the roles played by situational understanding of moral issues, the experiential and existential anchoring of human values, scenario-based deliberation and imagination, enaction as an approach to the implementation of ethics, and participatory methodologies to develop what we call a “living ethic”. Then, we will present work in progress defining the experiential nature of ethical deliberation as well as the evaluation of its dialogical and pedagogical contribution. Finally, we will present an action-participatory research project aiming to better understand the experience and to equip people with rare diseases.

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02:20 PM to 03:05 PM (Montreal, Canada)
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02:20 AM - 03:05 AM (Chile)

03:20 PM to 04:05 PM (Brazil)

07:20 PM to 08:05 PM (Portugal)

08:20 PM to 09:05 PM (Central Europe)

Individuation, through and beyond dead ends. The scope of the abductive and iconic dimensions of meaning in an enactive and semiological conception of experience

Deli Salini

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This contribution addresses the issue of the "dead end" experience in the individuation process. As part of the course of action research program, it is based on the activity-sign hypothesis - which articulates the enactive perspective and the semiotics of Peirce - as well as on the notion of individuation of Simondon. After putting into perspective how the question of meaning is taken up by various authors taking part in the enactive approach, we underline the significance of the experience of uncertainty in the face of breakdowns in anticipation, which can generate experiences of dead end in individual experience. These dead ends express a withdrawal of the dynamic of meaning as well as a hindrance to the experience of the continuity of time. The abductive and iconic dimensions of meaning therefore play an essential role in "going beyond" them and facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge and the revival of individual developmental dynamics. Likewise, they seem essential to us for thinking about the development of collectives, as well as for imagining future scenarios from the active perspective.

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03:30 PM to 04:15 PM (Montreal, Canada)
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03:30 AM - 04:15 AM (Chile)

04:30 PM to 05:15 PM (Brazil)

08:30 PM to 09:15 PM (Portugal)

09:30 PM to 10:15 PM (Central Europe)

Enhancing clinical intuition as second-order complex thinking: Enactivist foundations and challenges

Ana Teixeira de Melo

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In this paper, we approach the notion of clinical intuition from a complex thinking perspective, as second-order or emergent complex thinking. This proposal is based on a recent conceptualisation of complex thinking, with foundations in an enactive view of cognition and a relational worldview. We will discuss the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic challenges posed to and by a research program focused on the development of a process of complex case conceptualisation aimed at supporting family support practitioners dealing with complex cases. This research involves the design and evaluation of protocols and strategies to help practitioners enact core organisational properties of the complexity in living and human social systems, at the level of their own thinking, to manage its unfolding, and their experiences, as contributions to the coupling process. Under given conditions, new (relational) information (differences) may emerge, through the coupling process, in the form of clinical hypotheses (descriptions, explanations, anticipations) which may guide decision-making and the management of the change processes in conditions of significant uncertainty and limited information.

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04:35 PM to 05:00 PM (Montreal, Canada)

4:35 AM - 05:00 AM (Chile)

05:35 PM to 06:00 PM (Brazil)

09:35 PM to 10:00 PM (Portugal)

10:35 PM to 11:00 PM (Central Europe)

Debate and closure