UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents


                     "It Takes Two to Err.
            On the Enactivist Account of Normativity"


                     Manuel Heras Escribano
                 (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

                    11 December 2013 (Wednesday)
                          1 pm -2 pm

                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                       Seminar Room C152

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available


Abstract:

In this talk I want to challenge the notion of 'normativity'
developed by certain enactivist approach to cognition. For this
purpose I will recover two examples of the Wittgensteinian discussion
on rule-following (Wittgenstein, 1954) and I will adapt them to the
enactivist examples. Based on this, I will evaluate the naturalist project
of enactivism and I will show why this project is, in some respects,
unsatisfactory. I will end proposing a new naturalist project based on
this normativist spirit.

Speaker:

Manuel Heras Escribano holds a B.A. Philosophy, 2009 (Universidad de
Granada, Spain), a M.A. Logic and Philosophy of Science, 2010 (Universidad
de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), and a M.Sc. Neurosciences, 2013
(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain). He is currently a Ph.D. student
at Universidad de Granada under the supervision of Dr. Manuel de
Pinedo. His main interests are the philosophy of perception and the
philosophy of cognitive sciences from an antirepresentational, embodied
and situated point of view.
His thesis project consists in sketching a dispositional explanation to
affordances and also to analyze the metaphysical frontiers between the
different cognitive processes such as perception and action.

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