Laura Desirée Di Paolo

University of Sussex

This article proposes a novel computational approach to embodied approaches in cognitive archaeology called computational cognitive archaeology (CCA). We argue that cognitive archaeology, understood as the study of the human mind based on archaeological findings such as artefacts and material remains excavated and interpreted in the present, can be...

The Anthropocene era, marked by limited resources and shared responsibility for their use, calls for educational settings to model eco-sustainable practices against resource misuse and waste. To achieve this, learning environments should mirror the ecological realities of the Anthropocene by offering limited resources to be shared and preserved acr...

L'ère moderne a vu la naissance puis l’hégémonie de l'idéologie que James C. Scott appelle le "haut modernisme" (Scott 2020). Le haut-modernisme constitue une vision du monde centrée sur la "vue d'en haut" (Scott 2010), celle des ingénieurs et de l'administration publique ou privée, qui s'est traduite par la tentative systématique de construire un...

Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative artificial intelligence (AI). In what follows we ask how best to understand these new (somewhat ‘alien’, because of their disembodied nature) resources and how to incorp...

In this article, we bring Maria Montessori's pedagogy into conversation with contemporary developments in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. In particular, we seek to show that Montessori's "prepared environment" provides a context within which cognitive tasks are performed in the interfaces and interactions among brains, bodies, and con...

In this article, we bring Maria Montessori’s pedagogy into conversation with contemporary developments in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. In particular, we seek to show that Montessori’s “prepared environment” provides a context within which cognitive tasks are performed in the interfaces and interactions among brains, bodies, and con...

This article applies the thesis of the extended mind to ambient smart environments. These systems are characterised by an environment, such as a home or classroom, infused with multiple, highly networked, streams of smart technology often working passively in the background, learning about the user and operating without an explicit interface or any...

Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative AIs. In what follows we ask how best to understand these new (somewhat "alien", because of their disembodied nature) resources and how to incorporate them in our educati...

The Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis and the social brain hypothesis have revolutionized traditional views on how primate cognition can be studied. Beyond the study of individual problem-solving capacities of various primates, these hypotheses have demonstrated the close relationship between the complexity of primate social life and the emerge...

The creation of cultural information by humans is an ability that requires to compound together different factors. Although information needs to be transmitted faithfully enough so to prevent errors, space must be left to create innovations at the same time. Individual trial and error is the principal source of innovations among all primate species...

This interdisciplinary volume brings together expert researchers coming from primatology, anthropology, ethology, philosophy of cognitive sciences, neurophysiology, mathematics and psychology to discuss both the foundations of non-human primate and human social cognition as well as the means there currently exist to study the various facets of soci...

In this commentary we support a complex, mosaic and multimodal approach to the evolution of intelligence. Using the Arcuate Fasciculus as an example of discontinuity in the evolution of neurobiological architectures, we argue that the strict dichotomy “modules vs G”, adopted by the target paper, is insufficient to interpret the available statistica...

In this commentary, we support a complex, mosaic, and multimodal approach to the evolution of intelligence. Using the arcuate fasciculus as an example of discontinuity in the evolution of neurobiological architectures, we argue that the strict dichotomy of modules versus G , adopted by Burkart et al. in the target article, is insufficient to interp...

Questo lavoro analizza la possibile distinzione tra Teoria della Mente [ToM] minima e completa. In particolare, verrà preso in considerazione il tentativo compiuto da Butterfill e Apperly di costruire una ToM minima direttamente in maniera mentalistica, allo scopo di salvare la dignità delle capacità cognitive sociali mostrate dai bambini in fase p...

Talking of culture from a biological perspective is never an easy task. In fact, if we face the issue head on, then the argument is naïve. Therefore we need different passkeys. In this talk I will provide two of them. The first one consists in highlighting strong and weak points of different definitions of culture, in order then to discuss my own d...

Homo sapiens is very good in spreading behavioural patterns socially, solv-ing problems or just for fun. Nevertheless, particularly considering other primates, it is not the only species able in doing that: amongst apes and monkeys conspecifics share practices, apprenticing them from competent individuals, improving their expertise, and transmittin...

Social transmission of relevant innovations, one of the principal reasons for human success, is relevant in most of primates' behaviour, even if through different learning strategies. Niche Construction perspective, supporting the idea that each individual has a significant role in creating innovations, and Social Learning strategies, understanding...

L'articolo analizza il saggio di Jakob von Uexküll, prima da un punto di vista storico, prendendo in considerazione le introduzioni alle tre edizioni italiane; poi da una prospettiva teorica, mostrando come alcune delle teorie del fisiologo, tra le quali il concetto di , vadano oggi integrate nel contesto della riflessione ecologica, con enfasi sul...