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Saray Ayala
Àrea de Coneixement:
Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia / Logic and Philosophy of Science
Línies de recerca:
Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Focus: Embodied Cognition, Minimal Cognition, Plant Cognition
Publicacions dels últims 5 anys i principals publicacions anteriors:
- Ayala, S. (2010) Superfunctionalizing the mind, Teorema, Vol XXIX, 1 (extended critical notice on Andy Clark's book Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension. Oxford University Press, USA, 2008).
- Casacuberta, D., Ayala, S. & Vallverdú, J. (2010) Embodying Cognition: a Morphological Perspective, in Jordi Vallverdú (ed) Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, IGI Global, USA.
- Ayala, S. (2008) Mind and its explanatory puzzle, Ontology Studies/Cuadernos de Ontología, Vol. 7, pp. 176-188.
Altres dades:
Experiència acadèmica:
2010-2011
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy. "Philosophy of Mind", "Filosofía del Lenguaje" & "Grandes Temas de la Filosofía"
2008-2009: Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, UBC, “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 100/1) with Christina Hendricks, and “Philosophy of Mind” (Phil 451) with Bence Nanay, Term 2, winter session.
Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, Langara College, Vancouver, “Ethics” and “Epistemology and Metaphysics”, with Alex Boston, Term 1, winter session.
2006-2007: Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. “History of Philosophy and Science”.
2005-2006: Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. “Introduction to Philosophy of Cognitive Science”.
Beques i Premis:
Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Prize, 2009 meeting of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, April 8th-12th, Vancouver.
Young Researcher Paper Prize, 2009, VI Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, November 18th-21st, Valencia
Graduate Research Grant 2007-2009, La Caixa (Spain) and International Council for Canadian Studies (Ottawa), to spend 2 years as a visiting student at the University of British Columbia.
Graduate Research Grant 2002-2006, Science and Technology Ministry (Government of Spain), to join the research project: “Consciousness and self-consciousness of perception and action: Representationalism and Inferentialism”, directed by José Daniel Quesada Casajuana (BFF2001-2531), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Graduation Prize for Best Performance in B.A. in Philosophy, 2001-2002, University of Murcia.
Comunicacions:
"Body-chauvinism or Mind-chauvinism? Questioning the Autonomy of Psychology" American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 8-12 2009, Vancouver comments by Jennifer Matey, Florida International University (awarded a Graduate Student Paper Prize).
"What Matters for Perceptual Consciousness? A (non) Empirical Question" 13th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, June 5-8 2009, Berlin (poster presentation).
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Consciousness, April 24-25, 2009 Boston University. "What Does Embodiment Mean? Questioning the Autonomy of Psychology".
VI Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (SLMFCE), Valencia, November 18th-21st, 2009 (awarded a Young Researcher Paper Prize). Embodied Cognition and Embodied Communication, 15th Herbstakademie, Bern, Switzerland, October 7th-9th, 2009.
“Biased Cognition and Minimal Cognition: Embodied Cognition to the Rescue!” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, June 2-5 2008, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
E-mail: saray.ayala@uab.cat
Office: B7/121
Phone number: +34 93 581 1455
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