• Contemporary Enactive and Ecological Theories of Cognition

  • Phenomenology

  • American Pragmatism

  • Gestalt Psychology

Academic Employment

 

01/02/2020 - Present - Research Associate and Lecturer; Department of Philosophy (FB 02 Geistes und Kulturwissenschaften); Research Group: Philosophy of Situated Cognition; University of Kassel, Germany.

 

Academic Qualifications
 

01/02/2020 - Present - PhD Candidate in Philosophy; University of Kassel, Germany.

 

2016/2017 - 2018/2019 - Master of Science (M.Sc.), Cognitive Science at Ruhr University; Bochum, Germany

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2013/2014 - 2016/2017 - Bachelor in Philosophy (B.A.), Minor in Psychology and Human Sciences at University of Messina, Italy

Journal Articles

 

Kiverstein, J., & Artese, G.F. (2023). The Experience of Affordances in an Intersubjective World. Topoi., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09969-4.

Artese, G. F. & Michelini, F. (2023). La Ricezione di Jakob von Uexküll nella Psicologia Ecologica e nell’Enattivismo. Special Issue: Jakob Von Uexküll. Biological Theory, Subjectivity and Environment. Discipline Filosofiche, XXXIII.

Artese, G. F. & Kiverstein, J. (2022). The Social Orders of Existence of Affordances. Special Issue: Philosophical Psychology and Praxeological Gestalts Social Psychology and Sociology in dialogue with the Philosophers of Gestalt Psychology. Philosophia Scientiæ.263(3), 211-232.

Pelucchi, F. & Artese, G. F. (2022). “Che cos’è Gavagai?”. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 15(2), doi: 10.4396/20212REC1.

Artese, G. F. (2021). Gurwitsch´s Field of Consciousness and Radical Embodied Cognitive Science: A Case of Mutual Enlightenment. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Special Issue: ‘Shaping Actions and Intentions’. 53(2), 177-192.

Casper, M. & Artese, G. F. (2020). Maintaining Coherence in the Situated Cognition Debate: What Computationalism Cannot Offer to a Future Post-Cognitivist Science. Adaptive Behavior, 30(1), 3-17.

Artese, G. F. (2019). Conference Report: SOPhiA (2019). Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy. Volume 33, Issue 3.

 

Chapters

Artese, G. F. (2023). Affordances, the Social Environment, and the Notion of Field: State of the Debate and Methodological Insights. In: M. Casper & G. F. Artese (eds.). Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations (Studies in Brain and Mind Vol. 23), pp. 277-305. Springer Nature.

Casper, M. & Artese, G. F. (2023). Introduction. In: M. Casper & G. F. Artese (eds.). Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations (Studies in Brain and Mind Vol. 23), pp. 1-17. Springer Nature.

Casper, M. & Artese, G. F. (2023). A Methodological Response to the Motley Crew Argument: Explaining Cognitive Phenomena through Enactivism and Ethology, In: J. M. Viego, C. Bueno & M. Sanjuán (eds.). Life and Mind. New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences, pp. 27-48. Springer, Cham.

Bogotá, J. D. & Artese, G. F. (2022). A Husserlian Approach to Affectivity and Temporality in Affordance Perception, In: Z. Djebbara (ed.). Affordances in Everyday Life: A Multidisciplinary Collection of Essays, pp. 181-190. Springer, Cham.

 

Edited Volumes

Casper, M. O., & Artese, G. F. (eds.). (2023). Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations (Studies in Brain and Mind Vol. 23). Springer Nature.

 

12/12/2023 – Colloquium: University of Heidelberg Philosophy Colloquium; Sektion Phänomenologische Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie; - “The Experience of Affordances in an Intersubjective World”.

 

07/06/2023 - Conference: Mind and Matter 2023; University of Helsinki (Finland); Poster Presentation - “The Experience of Affordances in an Intersubjective World”.

 

13/09/2022 - Conference: The 7th Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology; Phenomenology and the Sciences; University of Padua (Italy); Talk - “Gurwitsch’s Phenomenological System of Science and the Privileged Place of an Enactive-Ecological Perspective”.

 

25/04/2022 - Symposium: Being Where: Revisiting Behavior Setting Theory, University of Roskilde (Denmark); Talk - “Behavior Settings and Orders of Existence: Towards a Complete Analysis of the Socio-Cultural Environment”.

 

29/10/2021 - Colloquium: Cognition and Culture; Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter (England); Talk (under invitation) - “What the Social Context Affords: Rethinking Affordances through Gurwitsch”.

 

18/09/2021 - “Conference: CILC5: 5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition”; University of Warsaw (Austria); Co-Author Dr.Mark-Oliver Casper:Short Talk: “Risk, Dynamics and an Enactivist Explanatory Strategy”.

 

14/05/2021 - Conference: “Speaking Bodies. Embodied Cognition at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence”; University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania); Talk - “Affordances and the Totality of the Background: A Functional Perspective”.

 

07/05/2021 - Conference: “First-Person Science of Consciousness. Theories, Methods, Applications”; Private Universität Witten/Herdecke (Germany); Poster Presentation - “Gurwitsch and Radical Embodied Cognitive Science: A Case of Mutual Enlightenment”.

 

03/05/2021 - Research Workshop: “Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences X”; Autonomous University Madrid (Spain) - Co-Author: Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Talk: “The Neglected Option of Ethological Explanations: Explaining Cognitive Phenomena through Enactivism and Ethology”.

 

04/03/2021 - Workshop: “Methodology of Situated Cognition Research”; University of Kassel (Germany) - Talk: “Affordances, Context and Attention: An Operationalization of the Concept of Functional Relevance”.

 

10/12/2020 - Workshop: “Philosophical Alliances in Cognitive Science. The Case of Pragmatism and Enactivism”; University of Kassel (Germany) - Talk: “The Ontology of the Lived Space: The Pluralistic Option”.

 

05/11/2020 - Workshop: “Please Restart Revolution? Computational Post-Cognitivism PROS & CONS”; University of Kassel (Germany) - Talk: “The Challenge of Biological Embodiment in the Context of Computational Enactivism”.

 

20/09/2019 - SOPhiA 2019; University of Salzburg (Austria) - Talk: “The Limits of Neuro-Reductionism”.

 

18/08/2018 - FITH STUDENTS CONGRESS FOR PHILOSOPHY IN COLOGNE 2018; University of Cologne (Germany) - Talk: “The Third Extended Mind Wave: Enactivism Meets Predictive Processing”.

Resarch Seminar: BioPhilosophie Colloquium. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy. Course co-directed with Dr. Francesca Michelini Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper. Summer Semester 2023.

 

Seminar: The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Summer Semester 2023.

 

Seminar: Sartre’s Theory of the Self and Emotions. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Winter Semester 2022/2023.

 

Resarch Seminar: BioPhilosophie Colloquium. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy. Course co-directed with Dr. Francesca Michelini Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper. Summer Semester 2022.

 

Seminar: Biological and Artificial Minds. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2021/2022.

 

Resarch Seminar: BioPhilosophie Colloquium. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy. Course co-directed with Dr. Francesca Michelini Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper. Winter Semester 2021/2022.

 

Research Seminar: Contemporary Philosophy of Mind. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy. Course co-directed with Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper. Winter Semester 2021/2022.

 

Seminar: One World, Multiple Realities or Something in Between? - Essays on the Metaphysics of the Environment. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Winter Semester 2021/2022.

 

Seminar: Psychiatry, Mental Disorders and the ExistentialDimension. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2021.

 

Research Seminar: Situated Cognition. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy. Course co-directed with Prof. Dr. Yvonne Förster and Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper. Winter Semester 2020/2021.

 

Seminar: An Introduction to the History of Phenomenology. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Winter Semester 2020/2021.

 

Seminar: Enactivist Interventions: An Introductory Course Into The Philosophy of Embodied Cognition. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2020.