SUMMARY: Opportunity to join us at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind, and Society [https://ias-research.net] at the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastián) for a PhD studentship within the “Outagencies: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal, and technical systems” project [https://outonomy.net/project-description/]: an interdisciplinary exploration of agency across philosophy, biology, AI, and social sciences.… Continue reading PhD Studentship opportunity
Author: Xabier Barandiaran
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 interplay. The sciences on which I feel embedded are those meeting in the multidisciplinary crossroad of cognitive sciences and artificial life: particularly the origins of agency, simulation of adaptive behaviour (evolutionary robotics and computational neuroethology), and large scale neuroscience.
How to acknowledge this project
Any activity, but most importantly PUBLICATIONS, of this OUTAGENCIES, project must include the following acknowledgement: Grant PID2023-147251NB-I00 for project “OUTAGENCIES: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal and technical system” (PI Xabier Barandiaran) funded by MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FEDER/EU In Spanish: Ayuda PID2023-147251NB-I00 del proyecto “OUTAGENCIES: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal and technical system”… Continue reading How to acknowledge this project
New project OUTAGENCIES
We are glad to announce that the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has positively evaluated a new grant for our project “OUTAGENCIES: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal and technical systems” led by Xabier E. Barandiaran. You can know more about this project here.
Call4Abstracts
The call for abstracts for the workshop is now open until the 15th of december. You can read the call and fill the form to submit your proposal here.
Workshop dates: 22-24th June 2022
Make room in your agendas and update your calendar. We will be hosting the Outonomy Workshop 22-24th of June 2022! We are now planning to open a call4abstract and invitation to guest speakers.
New site
This is the website that we just opened to coordinate the Outonomy project. You are welcome to join and follow our news, results and proposals.