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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].