Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin
Feb. 9, 2023, 3 p.m. UTC // Feb. 9, 2023, 3 p.m. in UTC
In a slight divergence from our usual format, our next seminar will be a dialogue with returning participant Fred Cummins from UCD, regarding a recent series of videos in which he addresses various considerations for theories of vision. Viewers are invited to review the videos before the seminar. Our conversation will use the themes raised in these videos to draw out key topics around enactive cognitive science, including the implications of representational thinking, the relationship between an agent and its world, and the complexities of personal interaction.
Fred's introduction to the videos:
Cognitive science provides two main types of theories of vision: imagistic and relational. In this short series of 7 videos, I raise concerns about imagistic theories of vision, and point to substantial and consequential problems in how these are spoken of and presented by scientists. I am an embodied cognitive scientist. Not only do I have a body, but my understanding of cognitive science is rooted in my own embodied being. I suggest that imagistic theories of vision, and the entire cognitivist framework within which they are constructed, must give way to naturalistic theories of our own embodiment.
View the "On Seeing" videos here.
