Speaker: Suzanne Aussems

Dr Adam Baimel, Oxford University

Title: tba

Host: Dr Jesse Preston

Professor Arthur Araújo, affiliated to Philosophy Department, University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Title: Pragmatism and the Extended Mind - The Question of Meaning

Host: Dr John Pickering

Abstract

Biog:

Graduated in Philosophy from the Federal University of Goiás (1988), Master in Philosophy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1992) and PhD in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio January (2001). Professor at the Federal University of Goiás (undergraduate and master’s in philosophy) between 1993 and 2010. Since then, I have been a professor at the Philosophy Department of the Federal University of Espírito Santo and I also was Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy. Founder member and current coordinator of the Working Group on Semiotics and Pragmatism of the Brazilian Association of Post-Graduate in Philosophy. Main fields of research: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Biology. Topics and authors of interest: Pragmatism (William James), Biosemiotics and Semiotics (Uexküll and Peirce), Philosophy of Ordinary Language (Ryle, Austin and Wittgenstein) and Evolution and Organism (Darwin, Uexküll and Whitehead).

Speaker:

Noorin Rodenhurst