Speakers

David Rosenthal is professor of philosophy and Coordinator of the Concentration in Cognitive Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with appointments also in linguistics and cognitive neuroscience. He works mainly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. He has pioneered the higher-order-thought theory of consciousness. According to that view, conscious psychological states differ from those that aren't conscious by being accompanied by a thought that one is in the target state. And he has developed the quality-space theory of mental qualitative character, according to which qualitative mental properties bear relations to one another homomorphic to the perceptible differences among a range of perceptible stimulus properties. Relatedly, he has written about the self, the unity of consciousness, the relation of thought and speech, free will, introspection, the function of consciousness, Freud, olfactory perception, the emotions, Descartes, perceptual confidence, interpretativism, and the mind-body problem. Also published on the significance of the history of philosophy for current work in philosophy.

Susan Schneider is the Founding Director, Center for the Future Mind, FAU, Boca Raton, FL. William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Mind, Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, Florida Atlantic University.
. Co-director, MPCR Lab (machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Lab).
. NASA-Baruch Blumberg Chair, Library of Congress and NASA.
. Distinguished Scholar Chair, Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2019).
- Schneider writes about the nature of the self and mind, especially from the vantage point of issues in philosophy, AI, cognitive science and astrobiology. In her recent book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of the Mind, she discusses the philosophical implications of AI, and, in particular, the enterprise of "mind design." As the recent NASA chair, Schneider completed a three year project with NASA on the future of intelligence. She now works with Congress on AI policy. She is delighted to be the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind and co-director of the MPCR Lab at FAU's new Gruber Sandbox. She also appears frequently on television shows on stations such as PBS and The History Channel (see below for clips). She writes opinion pieces for the New York Times, Scientific American and The Financial Times. Her work has been widely discussed in the media (see "media" above). She is currently working on a book on the shape of intelligent systems (for W.W. Norton).

Lucia Santaella is a researcher 1A at CNPq, with a PhD in Literary Theory (PUC-SP, 1973) and in Communication Sciences (ECA/USP, 1993). She is full professor at the PhD in Communication and Semiotics and in Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design (PUC-SP) and Director of the latter.
Santaella has been an invited professor at several universities in Europe and Latin America.
She published 53 books and organized 29, in addition to publishing almost 500 articles in Brazil and abroad.
She received the Jabuti awards (2002, 2009, 2011, 2014), the Sergio Motta award (2005) and the Luiz Beltrão award (2010).
Her last book is from 2021 and as the title of Hiper-Híbrids Humans (portuguese edition, Humanos Hiper-Híbridos, Paulus ed.).

Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. He is the author of a groundbreaking theory of creativity which applies to both humans and machines. He has written many critically acclaimed books, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc; 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession; Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art; and Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art. A regular broadcaster and lecturer, he has judged art competitions, curated exhibitions on art/science and writes engagingly about complex social and intellectual dramas, weaving the personal with the scientific to produce thoroughly-researched works that read like novels. He has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Wired and Nautilus. His most recent book, The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, on AI and creativity in art, literature and music, was published in fall 2019 by MIT Press. www.arthurimiller.com / www.artistinthemachine.net

Marcin Miłkowski Associate Professor in the Section for Logic and Cognitive Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. He published Explaining the Computational Mind (MIT Press 2013), awarded with the Tadeusz Kotarbiński Prize of the Section I of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the National Science Center Award for outstanding young scholars in social sciences and humanities in 2014. He was presented with Herbert A. Simon by Association for Computers in Philosophy (IACAP) for his significant contributions in the foundations of computational neuroscience (2015). Chair of the Section of Logic and Cognitive Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (2020-). Deputy President of the Committee for Philosophical Sciences (2020-) of the Polish Academy of Sciences. With R. Poczobut, he edited the volume Analytic Metaphysics of Mind (in Polish, Warszawa 2008) and Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (in Polish, Kraków 2012); with K. Talmont-Kamiński Beyond Description. Naturalism and Normativity (London 2010) and Regarding the Mind, Naturally: Naturalist Approaches to the Sciences of the Mental (Newcastle upon Tyne 2013).
Scientific interests of Prof. Miłkowski focus on philosophy of science, including philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of mind and information. He is also interested in computational linguistics.

Patrícia Gouveia is Associate Professor at Lisbon University Fine Arts Faculty [Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, FBAUL]. Integrated member of ITI – Interactive Technologies Institute / LARSyS, Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems, IST.
Co-curator of the Playmode exhibition (MAAT 2016-2019). Works in Multimedia Arts and Design since the nineties.
Her research focuses on playable media, interactive fiction, and digital arts as a place of convergence between cinema, music, games, arts, and design.
For more information about the author and her works please see here: https://fbaul.academia.edu/PatriciaGouveia/CurriculumVitae.

Daniel L. Everett was born in California, USA. He completed his ScD in linguistics at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, where he also taught for several years. He has held positions at the University of Pittsbugh; the University of Manchester, UK; Illinois State University; and Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he is currently Trustee Professor of Cognitive Sciences. He held visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Linguistics and Philosophy) and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
He has published widely on every aspect of linguistic theory and anthropology and psychology. His books include Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes (translated into many different languages), Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious, and How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention. He has spoken at conferences, academic and general public, around the world. He is currently working on two books on American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Paulo Alexandre e Castro is full member of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the University of Coimbra (IEF-UC). He has taught in University of Lisbon, and University of Minho (among others institutions like Polythecnic of Viseu).
Has done a PhD in Philosophy of Mind (University of Minho), Master in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (FLUL) and Degree in Philosophy at the same Faculty of Arts (Univ. Lisbon).
Has done a Post-doc in Digital Art/Cyberliterature (Fernando Pessoa University), among other courses, such as “Ethics in Artificial Intelligence” (University of Helsinki-Finland) or "Humanidades Digitales" (Universidade de Barcelona-Spain)".
He also has a PDCHyp (from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis).
Author of thirteen books (from essay (7) to literature (6) and co-author in more than fourty books. He publish regularly in international journals. Scientific interests are: Neuroaesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Mind, Education and Contemporary Culture.
For more information about the author search in Philpeople, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Orcid, or in his personal webpage: pauloalexandreecastro.webs.com

Ania Malinowska is an author, a cultural theorist and Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia (Poland), and a former Senior Fulbright Fellow at the New School in New York. Her research concentrates on cultural theory, love studies, digital humanities, and critical robotics – and specifically on the formation of cultural norms and the social, emotional and aesthetic codes in relation to digitalism.
Malinowska has authored and co-edited a number of articles, chapters and books preoccupied with the posthuman condition and technologies of affect, including Love in Contemporary Technoculture (CUP, 2022), with Valentina Peri), Data, Dating. Love, Technology, Desire (Intellect 2021, with Michael Gratzke), The materiality of Love. Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice (Routledge 2018, with Karolina Lebek), Materiality and Popular Culture. The Popular Life of Things (Routledge 2017, with Toby Miller) and “Media and Emotions. The New Frontiers of Affect in Digital Culture (a special issue of Open Cultural Studies, 2017).

Gualtiero Piccinini is Curators' Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for Neurodynamics at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
In 2014, he received the Herbert A. Simon Award from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. In 2018, he received the K. Jon Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association. In 2019, he received the Chancellor's Award for Research and Creativity from University of Missouri - St. Louis.
His publications include Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaiing Biological Cognition (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Alessio Plebe is Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of
Cognitive Science of the University of Messina. His main research field is
neural computation, its epistemology, and its explanatory power for several
cognitive functions. He has developed realistic neural models of visual object
recognition, early language acquisition, and moral behaviour. Currently, Plebe investigates the recent rise of deep learning, its causes and its impact on philosophy and cognitive science.

Pietro Perconti is currently the Dean of the Department of Cognitive science (COSPECS), former Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Teaching and Education, Director of Master of Cognitive Science, and Member of the Boards of Directors at the University of Messina.
The current research interests of Pietro Perconti include social cognition, consciousness, and the social role of cognitive science. He is the author of over 100 publications, including eight books. The latter, The Future of the Artificial Mind (with A. Plebe) (CRC, Taylor and Francis, London, UK), is an
updated picture of what artificial intelligence is becoming nowadays in the
light of the new perspective of deep learning.

Adelaide S. Ferreira da Costa, MD, PhD in Bioethics, in the area of Neuroenhancement, by the Portuguese Catholic University. Her thesis was awarded in recognition of its contribution to Bioethics. Psychiatrist (MD). Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto. Author and co-author of several articles published in national and international journals. Author of several lectures, workshops and courses in the areas of Psychiatry and Neuroethics, both in Congresses and Universities. She has collaborated with the Institute of Research and Innovation in Health at the University of Porto (i3S). She has also been collaborating in teaching with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra and also with the Portuguese Catholic University. Main areas of clinical work: pain and palliative care, psychosomatics, gerontopsychiatry, forensic psychiatry. Main areas of research: neuroenhancement, forensic psychiatry, humanization in health care and psychosocial impact of the pandemic by Covid19.

Maya Kóvskaya (femme/they/them) Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 2009) is founder and head of the AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab—a multidisciplinary research initiative in the Global South focused on how human
and more-than-human worldmaking and survival are mutually entangled under
the compound crises of climate chaos, mass extinction, and the Anthropocene condition. Kóvskaya teaches Theory; Multispecies Anthropocene Studies; and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Chiang Mai University in the Faculty of Social Science, and has published widely on the intersection of the political, linguistic, and ecological with performative, semiotic, and visual culture.
Kóvskaya's current research on bio- and eco-semiosis, "more-than-human speech acts," "multispecies language games," and "eco-performativity" explores the extralinguistic ways that nature "speaks." Current research includes collaboration with a marine biologist - an eco-semiotic study of the "feral agency" and the coral reef holobiont under climate crisis in the Gulf of Thailand, and a study with biologists on bat calls and virologists on multispecies worldmaking entanglements between humans, bats, and viruses in plantations, temples and other "zones of contact." Nonhuman semiosis offers a window onto the workings of more-than-human worldmaking. To survive, we need to rethink the human in a more-than-human world, and imagine the "multispecies polity" as a shared site of symbiogenesis and symbiopoeisis against the Anthropocene. Kóvskaya has lived, taught, curated exhibitions, and done research in Russia, China, India, and Thailand for most of the past 30 years.