Ezequiel Di Paolo Explained

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Workplaces:	Instituto Balseiro University of Sussex Ikerbasque
Alma Mater:	Instituto Balseiro University of Sussex
Thesis Title:	On the evolutionary and behavioral dynamics of social coordination
Thesis Year:	1999
Doctoral Advisor:	Phil Husbands

Ezequiel A Di Paolo (born in Buenos Aires, 1970) is a full-time Research Professor at Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science. He also has affiliations with the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. His field of research covers enactivism and embodiment in cognitive science.^[1]

Education

Di Paolo studied Physics at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Balseiro Institute in Argentina. He has a PhD degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex.

Academic work

His work includes research in embodied cognition, dynamical systems, adaptive behaviour in natural and artificial systems, biological modelling, complex systems, evolutionary robotics, and philosophy of science. His research is in the tradition established by Varela, Thompson and Rosch,^[2] which was an early example of the embodied, enactive approach to cognition.^[3]

Di Paolo believes that embodiment and enactivism have the potential to increase our understanding in traditional problems of cognition,^[4] and advocates that these alternative views should be explored and developed further, rather than being subsumed (or 'watered down') under more traditional frameworks, such as the cartesian dualistic model.

His promotion and exploration of embodiment and enactivism is carried on through his work in the academic consortium eSMCs, an EU funded project to investigate the role of sensorimotor contingencies in cognition.^[5]

Additionally, he is involved in Centre for Life, Mind and Society, a research group spanning complex systems in biology and self-organising systems.

Other areas of his work include social cognition and intersubjectivity. He is involved as principal investigator with the Marie-Curie Initial Training Network TESIS — Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity.

He is Editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Adaptive Behavior.

Publications

Di Paolo. E. A.. Organismically-inspired robotics: Homeostatic adaptation and natural teleology beyond the closed sensorimotor loop. In K. Murase & T. Asakura (Eds.), Dynamic Systems Approach for Embodiment and Sociality: From Ecological Psychology to Robotics, International series on advanced intelligence. Advanced Knowledge International. Magill, South Australia.
Di Paolo. Ezequiel A.. Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 11 April 2006. 4. 4. 429–452. 10.1007/s11097-005-9002-y. 10.1.1.64.8054. 15913928.
10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9. Participatory sense-making. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 6. 4. 485–507. 2007. De Jaegher. Hanne. Di Paolo. Ezequiel. 142842155.
10.1007/s11245-008-9042-3. Extended Life. Topoi. 28. 9–21. 2008. Di Paolo. Ezequiel. 17439600.
Di Paolo, E. A. (2010). Robotics inspired in the organism. Intellectica, 53-54, 129–162.
10.1016/j.tics.2010.06.009. 20674467. Can social interaction constitute social cognition?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14. 10. 441–7. 2010. De Jaegher. Hanne. Di Paolo. Ezequiel. Gallagher. Shaun. 476406.
10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00384. 23087655. Unreliable Gut Feelings Can Lead to Correct Decisions: The Somatic Marker Hypothesis in Non-Linear Decision Chains. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 2012. Bedia. Manuel G.. Di Paolo. Ezequiel. 3466990. 384. free.
10.3389/fnhum.2012.00163. 22701412. The interactive brain hypothesis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6. 2012. Di Paolo. Ezequiel. De Jaegher. Hanne. 3369190. 163. free.
10.3389/fnhum.2012.00345. 23316153. Enactivism is not interactionism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6. 2013. De Jaegher. Hanne. Di Paolo. Ezequiel. 3539800. 345. free.
10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00285. A Dynamical Systems Account of Sensorimotor Contingencies. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 2013. Buhrmann. Thomas. Di Paolo. Ezequiel Alejandro. Barandiaran. Xabier. 23750143. 285. 3664438. free.
10.1007/s11097-014-9404-9. From participatory sense-making to language: there and back again. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 2014. Cuffari. Elena Clare. Di Paolo. Ezequiel Alejandro. De Jaegher. Hanne. 14. 4. 1089–1125. free.
10.3389/fnhum.2014.00522. 25100971. A genealogical map of the concept of habit. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 2014. Barandiaran. Xabier E.. Di Paolo. Ezequiel A.. 4104486. 522. free.
10.3389/fnhum.2014.00551. 25126065. 4115614. Learning to perceive in the sensorimotor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 551. 2014. Di Paolo. Ezequiel Alejandro. Barandiaran. Xabier E.. Beaton. Michael. Buhrmann. Thomas. free.
10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00450. 24860544. 4030179. The worldly constituents of perceptual presence. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 450. 2014. Di Paolo. Ezequiel A.. free.

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Ezequiel Di Paolo : People : ... : Department of Informatics : University of Sussex. Sussex.ac.uk. 28 August 2018.
Penny. Simon. Varela. Francisco J.. Thompson. Evan. Rosch. Eleanor. Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Leonardo. 1995. 28. 4. 337. 10.2307/1576207. 1576207. 191391035.
Book: Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science . 32–87 . 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014601.003.0003 . Horizons for the Enactive Mind: Values, Social Interaction, and Play . 2010 . Di Paolo . Ezequiel A. . Rohde . Marieke . De Jaegher . Hanne . John . Stewart . Olivier . Gapenne . Ezequiel A. . Di Paolo . 978-0-262-01460-1. 10.1.1.63.9535 .
Participatory sense-making. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 6. 4. 485–507. 10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9. 2007. De Jaegher. Hanne. Di Paolo. Ezequiel. 142842155.
Web site: Consortium - eSMCs. Esmcs.eu. 28 August 2018.