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Brown Bag Lectures are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. The Brown Bag Lecture series was discontinued in 2014 with the KLI moving to its new premises in Klosterneuburg. In 2014 the KLI Colloquia were established as the new lecture series.

Event Details

KLI Brown Bag
Space, Body, and Mind in Animal Evolution
Michael TRESTMAN
2012-06-05 13:15 - 2012-06-05 13:15
KLI
Organized by KLI

Topic description:
This talk explores the relationship, in evolution, between animal cognition and animal body, with special attention to the role of space. Does the availability of a suitably complex cognitive architecture constrain (or drive) the elaboration of the animal form and its capacities to interact with the environment? Does having anatomical capacities to interact with the environment in certain ways constrain (or drive) the elaboration of cognition? If so, how do these constraining or driving relationships operate? If not, what would this tell us about the nature of cognition, and what would be left of cognition’s embodiment?

Recent Publications:
(2012) Implicit and explicit goal directedness. Erkenntnis (Online First, May).
(2012) The environment, from a behavioral perspective. In: The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics (Kabasenche WP, O’Rourke M, Slater MH, eds). MIT Press.

 

Biographical note:
Michael Trestman studied philosophy and obtained his PhD from the University of California, Davis in 2010. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Utah from 2010 to 2011, and is currently a research associate at UC Davis.