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Author |
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| Name | Menary, Richard |
| Research field | Philosophy |
| Career stage | professor |
| Home university/institution | Macquarie University, AUS |
| Department/Research unit at home university/institution | - |
| Chair/Working group at home institution | - |
International activity |
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| Country | Germany |
| Location | Bochum |
| University | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) |
| Fund Research School | VIP |
| Type of activity | research stay |
| Period |
starts 01-01-2016 ends 31-12-2018 |
| Keywords | - |
| Report |
Project Associate professor Richard Menary known internationally for being at the forefront of interdisciplinary research on embodied and situated/extended cognition. His philosophical research draws from the component disciplines of cognitive science and evolutionary biology. He has an interdisciplinary background with degrees in both Philosophy (King’s College London, PhD) and Cognitive Science (University of Birmingham, MSC). Professor Menary’s research provides a framework that gives the evolutionary and developmental conditions for embodied and socially/culturally situated cognition. It thereby shows not just that cognition is deeply functionally integrated with the social environment, but it also explains why it is so integrated. This is a significant advance in the field, giving both evolutionary and socio-cultural arguments for integration. His main contributions to the research field have been a single authored research monograph, Cognitive Integration (2007), staking out the intellectual territory by providing detailed arguments for the integrationist framework, a comprehensive edited collection that brings together the most influential thinkers in the field and a series of articles and book chapters that apply the integrationist model to the self, intentionality, writing and epistemology. He regularly publishes with top international publishers e.g. OUP, MIT Press and Palgrave Macmillan and with international peer reviewed scholarly journals e.g. Mind and Language, Philosophical Psychology and Philosophical Explorations. The co-cooperation between Richard Menary and researchers from the Institut für Philosophie II (Ruhr-Universität), especially hosted by Prof. Albert Newen and Sabrina Coninx and Francesco Marchi, provided through the VIP-Grant of the Research School was aimed at supervision of an outstanding PhD-Project concerning an empirically grounded philosophical theory of pain with a special focus on the idea of an “integrated pattern” within the theory of integrated cognition provided by Richard Menary. Richard Menary also supported Francesco Marchi with his PhD-project concerning “Perception Attention and Predictive Coding”. Since an important question of his thesis was whether higher-cognitive states influence perceptual processes leading to a perceptual experience, the work of Menary on cognitive integration was highly relevant for this project. Especially since Richard Menary had developed one of the dominant views on cognitive integration the exchange with Prof. Menary was very helpful for the PhD-project of Francesco Marchi. Previous Projects March 6th-10th, 2017 Spring School 2017 – Social Cognition, Emotion and Joint Action "Did social cognition culturally evolve?” |