Virtual: Ecological Brain Doctoral Training Programme (EcoBrain): Professor Thomas Fuchs

In his talk Prof Fuchs will explore the concept of circularity as a means of explaining the relation between the phenomenology of lived experience and the dynamics of organism–environment interactions. This concept of circularity also seems suitable for connecting enactive accounts with ecological psychology.

The talk will be followed by a discussion moment. After that, Dr. Valeria Bizzari will give a short presentation titled 'Embodiment, Temporality and Intersubjectivity in High Functioning Autism' and will stay for those who want to extend the conversation about Fuchs' theory. 

Background:

Prof. Thomas Fuchs, psychiatrist and philosopher, is head of the section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg. He is author of the book 'Ecology of the Brain: The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind'.

Dr Valeria Bizzari is a philosopher with a background in phenomenology, philosophy of emotions and psychopathology. Between 2018 and 2020 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Clinic University of Heidelberg, where she worked with Prof. Thomas Fuchs, with whom she keeps on collaborating today.

The talk will take place via Zoom. NB UCL staff and students only.

• Meeting ID: 925 5786 3720
• Passcode: 5bbuQt

For any questions, please email our administrator Warda Sharif on w.sharif@ucl.ac.uk