Xabier Barandiaran

Presentation

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I consider myself a situated and embodied philosopher, which means that I situate my philosophical practice in close interaction with scientific environments and embodied in the conceptual apparatus that emerges from this interaction.  The sciences on which I feel embedded are those meeting in the multidisciplinary crossroad of cognitive sciences and artificial life.

I did my BA in Philosophy at the University of Deusto (Bilbao) and did a year of Erasmus in Middlesex University (London). When finishing my degree I decided to move towards the new emerging sciences of Artificial Live and Complexity and went to the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) to do a MSc on Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems. I'm currently holding a doctoral fellowship at the University of the Basque Country, in San Sebastian to do a PhD Thesis on "Information and Autonomy in natural and artificial cognitive systems" with Álvaro Moreno.

Research Interests

Main subjects of interest

• Cognitive Autonomy: The capacity of intelligent systems to build their own phenomenology.
  
• Naturalized Epistemology: More specifically biological-organizational naturalization of normativity and identity/subjectivity formation.
• Artificial life: simulation of adaptive behaviour and evolutionary robotics
• Cognitive Science: neurophilosophy, embodied and situated cognition

Secondary subjects of interest

• Philosophy of technology, technopolitical autonomy and hacktivism.
• Epistemology of artefacts the role of simulation models in scientific research.
• Network theory.
• History of Cybernetics.

Publications

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