Events
I have been involved as a chair or co-chair in organizing the following events:
- 2024 Workshop on Generative AI and the Philosophy of Mind (Workshop Co-Chair)
- 2017 9th International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications (Special Track Chair)
- 2012 6th Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (Conference Co-Chair)
- 2009 Workshop on Network-Enabled Cognition (Workshop Co-Chair)
Awards
- 2015 Appointed Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
- 2010 University of Southampton Staff Achievement Award
- 2009 Winner of Best Paper Award at the Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations Conference
- 2006 University of Southampton Staff Achievement Award
Professional Memberships
- British Computer Society
- Cognitive Science Society
- Association of Computing Machinery
- ACM SIGAI
- International Association for Computing and Philosophy
Presentations
- June 2024 — Minds in the Matrix: Seeming and Believing (Liverpool, UK)
- March 2024 — Patient Phenomenology through the Prism of Predictive Processing (Southampton, UK)
- November 2023 — Digital Andy: Using Cloud-AI to Build a Virtual Philospher (Lisbon, Portugal)
- November 2023 — Mindcraft: Cognitive Ecologies from an Engineering Standpoint (Lisbon, Portugal)
- September 2023 — Secure Ontologies for the Internet of Things (Online)
- September 2023 — Mandevillian Intelligence: The Virtue of the Vicious (Delft, The Netherlands)
- June 2023 — Risk and Security Ontologies for the Internet of Things: An Approach Using Basic Formal Ontology (Southampton, UK)
- February 2023 — Mental Privacy and the Extended Mind (Lisbon, Portgual)
- June 2022 — Lovin' the Virtual: Holographic Elements in Blade Runner 2049 (Bangor, Wales)
- November 2021 — Technological Trustworthiness: The Free Energy Account (Lisbon, Portugal)
- October 2021 — Minding Society: Social Machines, Predictive Processing, and the Cognitive Incorporation of Humanity (Lisbon, Portugal)
- September 2021 — Relativistic Conceptions of Trustworthiness: Implications for the Trustworthy Status of National Identity Systems (London, UK)
- June 2021 — Extended Computation: Wide Computationalism in Reverse (Southampton, UK)
- April 2021 — Active Externalism: Endgame (Lisbon, Portugal)
- August 2020 — Mixed Realities, Hybrid Minds (Lisbon, Portugal)
- July 2020 — Designer Environments (Southampton, UK)
- March 2020 — Reflections on Blade Runner 2049 (IBM UK, Hursley, UK)
- November 2019 — The Story of Our Lives: Human 'Heptapods' and the Gift of Language (Southampton, UK)
- November 2019 — Limitless 'Me': Internet-Extended Minds and the Nature of Epistemic Inflationism (Madrid, Spain)
- October 2019 — Geopolitical Drivers of Personal Data: The Four Horsemen of the Datapocalypse (University of Southampton, Southampton, England)
- September 2019 — Constitutive Relevance from an Engineering Perspective: Implications for Extended Cognition (Lisbon, Portugal)
- December 2018 — Generative Mechanisms and Predictive Processing (University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)
- June 2018 — Web-Extended Minds (THECUBE, London, UK)
- May 2018 — A Predictive View of Generative Learning (Edinburgh, UK) [Keynote Presentation]
- February 2018 — Dream Machines: Predictive Processing, Generative Models, and the Mind of Society (Lisbon, Portugal)
- December 2017 — The Shape of the Social: Socially-Oriented Generative Models (Southampton, England)
- December 2017 — Mandevillian Intelligence (London, England)
- September 2017 — Writing, Cognition and the Future of Text Technology (University of Southampton, Southampton, England)
- March 2017 — Active Externalism, Virtue Reliabilism and Extended Knowledge (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland)
- February 2017 — Machine Intelligence and the Social Web: How to Get a Cognitive Upgrade (Athens, Greece)
- December 2016 — Dream Machines: Predictive Processing, Conscious Experience and Digital Immortality (IBM UK, Hursley, England)
- October 2016 — Mandevillian Intelligence: From Individual Vice to Collective Virtue (University of Southampton, Southampton, England)
- October 2016 — Mandevillian Intelligence (New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)
- October 2016 — The Rise of the (Social) Machines (Porto, Portugal) [Keynote Presentation]
- September 2016 — Social Machines: A Mechanistic Perspective (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- June 2016 — Predicting Me, Experiencing Us: Predictive Processing, Big Data and the Mind of Society (New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)
- March 2016 — Hierarchical Prediction Machines and Big Data Analytics (University of Southampton, Southampton, England)
- January 2016 — Digital Epistemology: Digital Media Technologies and Extended Knowledge (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland)
- January 2016 — Minds Online: Cognitive Extension and Web Technologies (University of Nice, Nice, France)
- October 2015 — Extended Knowledge, Social Epistemology and Mandevillian Intelligence (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland)
- September 2015 — Using a Cognitive Architecture to Control the Behaviour of Virtual Robots (Turin, Italy)
- July 2015 — Place Recognition and Topological Map Learning in a Virtual Cognitive Robot (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
- July 2015 — Situating Cognition within the Virtual World (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
- June 2015 — The Web: Cognitive Boon Or Burden? (New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)
- April 2015 — Emerging Digital Technologies: Implications for Extended Conceptions of Cognition and Knowledge (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Committees
I have served on the program committees of the following events:
- 2024 Semantic Shields I: 1st International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (Programme Committee)
- 2022 The Web Conference (Programme Committee)
- 2021 Symposium on The Mind-Technology Problem (Programme Committee)
- 2018 10th International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications (COGNITIVE) (Steering Committee Member)
- 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Peer Reviewer)
- 2017 9th International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications (COGNITIVE)
- 2016 Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology Conference
- 2015 7th International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications (COGNITIVE)
- 2011 5th Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance
- 2011 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference
- 2011 Web and Philosophy Workshop
- 2010 4th Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance
- 2010 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference
- 2009 3rd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance
Funding Agencies
I have reviewed project proposals for the following funding agencies:
- Ministry of Universities (Government of Spain)
- The Royal Society
- Medical Research Council
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Journals
I have been a reviewer for the following journals:
- Ratio
- Ethics & Information Technology
- Data & Policy
- Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
- Cognitive Systems Research
- Synthese
- Intelligent Systems
- Patterns
- Information Fusion
- Journal of Web Semantics
- The Computer Journal
- Semantic Web Journal
- Review of Philosophy and Psychology
- Artificial Intelligence Review
- International Journal of Maritime Engineering
- Minds and Machines
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Entropy
- PLOS ONE
- Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review
- Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
- Social Epistemology
- Philosophy & Technology
- Philosophical Psychology
- Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Book Proposals
I have reviewed book proposals for the following publishers: