Publications and presentations

Publications

Kaipainen, M., A. Hautamäki & J. Parthemore (2023, in press). Concepts for intended action: A dynamic model. Philosophical Psychology.
de Melo, C., D. Petters, J. Parthemore, D. Moffatt & C. Becker-Asano (2021) Introduction to the special issue on computational modelling of emotion. Transactions on Affective Computing, 12(2): 277-278.
Parthemore, J. (2020) Will the real artist stand up? Computational creativity as mirror to the human soul. In J. Alvarado & Anna Jordanous (eds.), Proceedings of the 7^th Computational Creativity Symposium at AISB2020, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.
Parthemore, J. (2019). On the essentially dynamic nature of concepts. In M. Kaipainen, A. Hautamäki, P. Gärdenfors & F. Zenker (eds.), Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications (83-102), Springer.
Parthemore, J. (2017). Consciousness, semiosis, and the unbinding problem. Language & Communication. 54:36-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.10.004.
Parthemore, J. (2017). Understanding empathy: Metaphysical startnig assumptions in the modeling of empathy and emotions, Proceedings of the Symposium on The Power of Passion: Human Reason and its Emotional Foundations at AISB 2017, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.
Parthemore, J. (2016). A cognitive semiotic perspective on the nature and limitations of concepts and conceptual frameworks. In Zlatev, J., Sonesson, G. & Konderak, P. (eds.), Meaning, Mind, and Communication: Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics, Peter Laing.
Parthemore, J. (2016). Beyond objectification: From robots as sex toys to a new theory of personhood. Proceedings of the Artificial Sexuality Symposium at AISB2016, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.
Parthemore, J. (2015). Specification of the unified conceptual space, for purposes of empirical investigation. In P. Gärdenfors & F. Zenker (eds.), Applications of Conceptual Spaces: The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation (223-244).
Parthemore, J. (2014). From a sensorimotor to a sensorimotor++ account of embodied conceptual cognition. M. In Bishop & A.O. Martin (eds.), Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Vol. 15 (137-158), Springer.
Parthemore, J. (2014). The case for protoconcepts: Why concepts, language, and protolanguage all need protoconcepts. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, 11: 159-178. doi:10.12775/ths-2014-009.
Parthemore, J. (2014). Conceptual change and development on multiple time scales: From incremental evolution to origins. Sign Systems Studies, 42(2-3): 193-217.
Parthemore, J. & Whitby, B. (2014). Moral agency, moral responsibility, and artifacts: What existing artifacts fail to achieve (and why) and why they, nevertheless, can (and do!) make moral claims upon us. International Journal of Machine Consciousness. 6(2): 141-161, doi:10.1142/S1793843014400162.
Parthemore, J. and B. Whitby (2013). What makes any agent a moral agent?: Reflections on machine consciousness and moral agency, International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 5(2): 105-129. doi:10.1142/S1793843013500017.
Parthemore, J. (2013). The unified conceptual space theory: An enactive theory of concepts. Adaptive Behavior, 21(3): 168-177. doi:10.1177/1059712313482803.
Parthemore, J. (2013). The 'final frontier' as metaphor for mind: Opportunities to re-conceptualize what it means to be human, in D. Dunér, G. Holmberg, J. Parthemore & E. Persson (eds.), The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on the Human Mind and Extraterrestrial Life (67-92), Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Duner, D., J. Parthemore, G. Holmberg, G. & E. Persson, (eds.) (2013). The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on the Human Mind and Extraterrestrial Life, Cambridge Scholars Press.
Parthemore, J. (2013). Autism as philosophical insight: The enactive response to the tendency to pathologize. Proceedings of the AISB Symposium on Re-conceptualizing Mental Illness at AISB2013, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.
Parthemore, J. (2011). Concepts Enacted: Confronting the Obstacles and Paradoxes Inherent in Pursuing a Scientific Understanding of the Building Blocks of Human Thought (DPhil thesis), Falmer, Brighton, UK: University of Sussex.
Parthemore, J. (2011). Of boundaries and metaphysical starting points: Why the extended mind cannot be so lightly dismissed. Teorema, 30: 79-94.
Parthemore, J. & A. Morse (2010). Representations reclaimed: Accounting for the co-emergence of concepts and experience, Pragmatics & Cognition, 18(2): 273-312. doi:10.1075/pc.18.2.03par.
Aleksander, I., U. Awret, S. Bringsjord, R. Chrisley, R. Clowes, J Parthemore, S. Stuart, S. Torrance & T. Ziemke. Assessing artificial consciousness: A collective review article. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15(7): 95-110.
Chrisley, R. & J. Parthemore (2007). Synthetic phenomenology: exploiting embodiment to specify the non-conceptual content of experience, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14(7): 44-58.
Chrisley, R. & J. Parthemore (2007). Robotic specification of the non-conceptual content of visual experience. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches (36-42).
Parthemore, J. & J. Taylor (1992). Charley: A linguistic formalism applied to writing environment design. Digital Creativity (Intelligent Tutoring Media), 3(2-3): 85-92. doi:10.1080/14626269209408312.

Book reviews

Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness, Nicholas Humphrey, 2011, Princeton University Press.
The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism, Vincent Descombes, 2010, Princeton University Press.
Ten Years of Viewing from Within, Claire Petitmengin (ed.), 2009, Imprint Academic.
The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain. Zoltan Torey, 2009, MIT Press.
Doing Without Concepts, Edouard Machery, 2009, Oxford University Press.
Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries, Glen A. Mazis, 2008, State University of New York Press.
Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics, Richard Schusterman, 2008, Cambridge University Press.
The Concept "Horse" Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations: A Prolegomenon to Philosophical Investigations , Kelley Dean Jolley, 2007, Ashgate.
Artificial Consciousness, Antonio Chella & Riccardo Manzotti (eds.), 2007, Imprint Academic.
Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, Susan Pockett, William P. Banks & Shaun Gallagher (eds.), 2006, MIT Press.
Like a Splinter in Your Mind: The Philosophy Behind the Matrix Trilogy, Matt Lawrence, 2004, Blackwell.

Conference presentations, lectures, and seminars

Statistik för kognitiv vetenskap: Vissa grundbegrepp, 23 October 2018, trial lecture in application to lectureship in cognitive neuroscience, University of Skövde, Sweden - [slides].
Research methods: An introduction, 18 June 2018, trial lecture in application for postdoctoral position in philosophy of technology, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands - [slides].
Mänskliga och konstgjorde aktörer: "Tell me if you can / what makes a man a man", 14 November 2017, lunchtime library seminar, University of Skövde, Sweden - [slides (Swedish)].
Reassessing Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Re-examining the link between metaphor, language, semiosis, and various sensory modalities, 9 February 2017 - Center for Cognitive Semiotics seminar series - [slides].
Understanding empathy, 16 December 2016, trial lecturer in application to lectureship in cognitive science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - [slides].
Of boundaries and metaphysical starting points: Why the extended mind cannot be so lightly dismissed, 13 May 2011, guest lecture, masters-level cognitive neuroscience course, University of Skövde, Sweden. [slides].
Representations, symbols, icons, concepts... and why there are no mental representations, Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), 6-8 May 2011, Lund, Sweden - [slides].
The limits of concepts and conceptual abilities, Toward a Science of Consciousness, 3-8 May 2011, Stockholm, Sweden - [slides].
Why some version of the extended mind hypothesis must be on the table!, 9 November 2010, Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy, Lund, Lweden - [paper] - [slides].
From theory to practice: A simple mind-mapping program, SweCog 2010 Autumn Conference - [poster].
Conceptual spaces, The unified conceptual space theory, and metaphor, presentation for application to postdoc position, 28 July 2010, Birmingham, UK. [abstract] - [slides].
Putting conceptual abilities in an evolutionary perspective: Reflections on Merlin Donald's work on cognitive evolution in light of theories of concepts", European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems Annual Workshop, 6-8 July 2010, London, UK. [abstract] - [slides].
Enactive representations, Enaction et Sciences Cognitives, 6-12 September 2007, Fréjus, France - [extended abstract] - [slides].
Conceptual structures and levels of consciousness", Toward a Science of Consciousness - 2007, 23-26 July 2007, Budapest, Hungary - [poster].
Getting to the heart of the concept CONCEPT", Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness - 11, 22-25 June 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - [paper] - [poster].
The theory-implementation-theory iterative cycle: Through the eye of an AIBO, Philosophers Rally, 26-27 April 2007, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands - [paper] - [slides].
Representation without re-presentation: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the whole picture, Life & Mind seminar series, 28 February 2007 - [slides].
Knowledge as personal: The representation of self in the representation of knowledge, Association for The Scientific Study of Consciousness - 10, 23-26 June, 2006, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK - [paper] - [poster].
Recovering resemblance: responding to common objections to resemblance-based theories of reference, Mind 2006, 15-16 June 2006, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK - [paper] - [slides].
Why we need to talk About developing nations and AI, Not AI and developing nations, AI and Developing Nations discussion group, 7 December 2005 - [slides].