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Meeting ID: 588 186 1923

Topic description / abstract:

This talk will introduce a new naturalistic view of rationality called “embodied rationality”, which combines the traditional idea of bounded/ecological rationality with the cognitive-science approach of embodied cognition. Given the plurality of views within embodied cognition, four concepts of embodied rationality will be proposed, following an increasing order of embodied radicalism (i.e., increasing degree of rejection of information-processing assumptions): “embodied bounded rationality”, “somatic rationality”, “extended rationality”, and “radical embodied/enactive rationality”. The talk will focus on the normative and evolutionary foundations of these concepts, showing that the more radical the view of embodied cognition gets, the more the idea of rationality it informs needs to depart from adaptationism and embrace non-adaptationist insights. 

Biographical note:

Enrico Petracca joined KLI as a senior postdoc in 2023 and is now a Hans Przibram Fellow. After being trained as an economist at Bocconi University in Milan, he earned a Ph.D. in the philosophy of cognitive sciences from the University of Bologna in 2014. He then held appointments either as a postdoc or adjunct professor at the Universities of Bologna, Pisa, Neuchâtel, and at the Swiss Institute in Rome.