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Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Ikerbasque Research Professor
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU)
Av de Tolosa 72, Ed Korta, San Sebastian, 20018 Spain

Visiting Researcher
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR)
Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS)
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex

Email: ezequiel (AT) sussex.ac.uk


NEWS

  • As of January 2010, I've been appointed Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in San Sebastian.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2010) Modelling social interaction as perceptual crossing: an investigation into the dynamics of the interaction process, Connection Science, 22(1): 43 – 68.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2009). The Social and Enactive Mind, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Editorial for special issue, vol 8 issue 4, DOI 10.1007/s11097-009-9143-5.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Toward minimally social behavior: Social psychology meets evolutionary robotics in Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL09, Budapest, September 13-16, 2009, Springer Verlag.

  • Manicka, S. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Local ultrastability in a real system based on programmable springs in Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL09, Budapest, September 13-16, 2009, Springer Verlag.

  • Egbert, M., Di Paolo, E. A. and Barandiaran, X. (2009) Chemo-ethology of a adaptive protocell: Sensor-less sensitivity to implicit viability conditions in Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL09, Budapest, September 13-16, 2009, Springer Verlag.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009). Sociality and the life-mind continuity thesis. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s11097-009-9140-8.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (forthcoming). Modeling social interaction as perceptual crossing: An investigation into the dynamics of the interaction process, Connection Science.

  • An article based on an interview on the enactive approach published in the Argentinian newspaper Pagina 12 on 9th May 2009 (with an artist rendition of the main message!).

  • I've been elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL).

  • Barandiaran, X., Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Defining agency: individuality, normativity, asymmetry and spatio-temporality in action. Adaptive Behavior, 17: 367-386, Special issue on Agency.

  • Egbert, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Integrating behavior and autopoiesis: An exploration in computational chemo-ethology. Adaptive Behavior, 17: 387-401, Special issue on Agency.

  • I'm guest-editing a special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on Enactive Approaches to Social Cognition. Planned for issue 8(4), 2009.

  • I have been visiting Argentina for a month thanks to the funding awarded by a Cesar Milstein Subsidy from the Programa Raices (Argentinian Ministry of Science and Technology). Thanks to Diego Lawler and Fernando Adrover for their role in obtaining this award.

  • I'm on sabbatical until the end of April. Response to emails may be a bit slow.

  • Todd, P., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Farewell and hello editorial Adaptive Behavior, 17:5-6.

  • I'm the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Adaptive Behavior after Peter Todd decided to step down following 7 years of tremendous steering. More news to come soon.

  • Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Extended life Topoi, 28:9-21.

  • Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Overcoming autopoiesis: a enactive detour on the way from life to society. In Magalhaes, R., and Sanchez, R. (Eds) Autopoiesis in Organizations and Information Systems, Elsevier.

  • Hu, X-B., and Di Paolo, E., (2009). A ripple-spreading genetic algorithm for the airport gate assignment problem. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC, 2009, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009.