Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Robert William Clowes
Citation names
- Clowes, Robert
- Robert W Clowes
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F910-C9FF-723C
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2006-3917
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2008
Concluded
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University of Sussex, PhD Cognitive Science Programme (Specialism Philosophy) (Doutoramento)
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
"Beyond situated action : a neo-Vygotskian theory of thinking and language internalisation / Robert William Clowes." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Doctorate Awarded |
1996
Concluded
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Master of Science in Applied Informatics (Mestrado)
Middlesex University School of Science and Technology, United Kingdom
"Artificial Intelligence and Music: " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Masters |
1994
Concluded
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Undergraduate Degree (Licenciatura)
Keele University, United Kingdom
"Dual Honours Degree in English and Philosophy, " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Class II, Division i |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2008 - 2020 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal | ||
2010/10/01 - 2016/09/10 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
2010/01/01 - 2016/01/01 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2004/09/01 - 2005/09/01 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2005/10/01 - 2010/07/30 | Tutorial Fellow in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science | University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
2005/09/01 - 2010/07/01 | Tutorial Fellow in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science | University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
2004/10/01 - 2005/08/01 | Tutor Psychology | University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
2003/10/01 - 2004/01/31 | Researcher visiting SKAI lab Skovde with EUCognition Funding | Hogskolan i Skovde Institutionen för informationsteknologi, Sweden |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2017/09/01 - 2018/08/31 | Nova Institute of Philosophy
UID/FIL/00183/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Ensuring Human Cognitive Flourishing against the background of GENerative AI: sustaining deep minds within our new cognitive
ecology.
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Ongoing
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2021/04/01 - 2024/03/31 | Argumentation-driven explainable artificial intelligence for digital medicine
CHIST-ERA/0002/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30 | Emergence in the Natural Sciences: Towards a New Paradigm
PTDC/FER-HFC/30665/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2011/01/01 - 2019/01/31 | THE VIRTUALITY APPROACH TO MIND
SFRH/BPD/70440/2010
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/02/01 - 2014/07/31 | The Cognitive Foundations of the Self
PTDC/FIL-FCI/110978/2009
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Projecto Estratégico - UI 183 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/FIL/UI0183/2011
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/12/15 | "Thinking Creating and Feeling with Generative AI: Incorporating AI in our Cognitive and Affective Lives as Extended Minds and Virtual Personalities". Presentation of paper at Philosophy of AI Conference (PhAI 2023) | 5th Conference on "Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence" (A conference of the Society for the Philosophy of AI)
Society for the Philosophy of AI (Erlangen, Germany)
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2023/10/02 | "Incorporating AI in our Cognitive and Affective Lives as Extended Minds and Virtual Personalities: A Comparative Analysis." Invited talk for the conference Beyond Boundaries: Persons, (Bio)Technologies, & the Law, Gladstone's Library, Wales October 2th-3th | (2023) Beyond Boundaries: Persons, (Bio)Technologies, & the Law, Gladstone's Library, Wales October 2th-3th
Everyday Cyborgs 2.0; University of Birmingham (Wales, United Kingdom)
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2023/07/06 | Cognition, Thought and Technology: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/eventos/arts-and-humanities-in-digital-transition-2023/ Invited participant: Robert W. Clowes. Centro Cultural de Belém | Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition ICNOVA – Institute of Communication – NOVA University of Lisbon Centro Cultural
de Belém, 6-7 July
Maria Teresa Cruz - Professora Associada do Dep. de Ciências da Comunicação da NOVA FCSH Coordenadora do Grupo de Investigação
em Cultura, Media e Artes do ICNOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2023/06/20 | Presentation "Deep minds and the cognitive ecology of Generative AI" paper given by invitation at Workshop on AI and Humanities, La Sapienza, Villa Mirafiori Rome. Other speakers include Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza), Marco Fasoli (Sapienza), Vanessa Nurock (Côte d'Azur), Vieri Santucci (CNR) | Autonomy and AI, Guglielmo Tamburrini (Napoli), Teresa Numerico (Roma Tre) | AI and the Humanities
(Rome, Italy)
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2023/06/16 | E-memory with artificial intelligence: Who are we? Who might we become? (Keynote invited talk as part of the internatinal conference: Memory and Technology: Extended Perspectives at Université Grenoble Alpes). https://phil-mem.org/events/2023-technology.php | Memory and Technology: Extended Perspectives
Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenobles, France)
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2023/05/09 | Deep learning, deep minds and 4E Cognitive Science: 2nd Lisbon AI Seminar. https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/pt/evento/09-05-2023/deep-learning-deep-minds-and-4e-cognitive-science. Video available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_arRb47ys | Regular Lisbon AI Seminar
CFCUL (lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/04/12 | Self-Regulation, Dopplegangers and the New Generative AI (Part of HUMAN AGENCY AND SELF WITHIN THE 21ST CENTURY COGNITIVE ECOLOGY workshop) | HUMAN AGENCY AND SELF WITHIN THE 21ST CENTURY COGNITIVE ECOLOGY
(lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/03/23 | Generative AI. What it might reveal about 4E cognitive science and the shape of the human mind. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/seminars (Invited talk as part of the COGS seminar series: talk available online) | COGS Seminar Series; University of Sussex
Centre for Cognitive Science; University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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2023/03/07 | Looking Backwards to Move Forwards with 4E Cognitive Science (as part of 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind) https://4confphilmind.weebly.com/program.html | 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: 4E's Approach to the Mind/Brain
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (Minho, Portugal)
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2023/02/13 | The New Cognitive Ecology of Artificial Intelligence. At workshop on EPISTEMIC AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE MIND-TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM (LMCK Group Workshop with Prof. Judith Simon). | EPISTEMIC AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE MIND-TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM
(lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/10/21 | Round Table 5 AI & Philosophy of mind ¿ Moderator: Robert Clowes (FCSH-UNL) ¿ Vítor Santos (NOVA IMS) ¿ Klaus Gärtner (CFCUL/FCUL) ¿ Mariana Seabra (FEUP e FLUL) ¿ Mendo Castro Henriques (UCP-APDSI/Grupo de Futuros) ¿ Paulo Castro (CFCUL/FCUL): https://www.cm-alcochete.pt/municipio/camara-municipal/gabinete-apoio-ao-empresario-e-empreendedorismo/noticia-65/1-simposio-portugues-sobre-filosofia-e-inteligencia-artificial | FIrst Portguese Symposium on Philosophy and Artificial Intellgence
CFCUL (Alcochete, Portugal)
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2021/10/21 | Intro: Why the Mind Technology Problem? Why Now? (Symposium on The Mind-Technology Problem IFILNOVA & CFCUL). https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/symposium-on-the-mind-technology-problem/ | Symposium on The Mind-Technology Problem
cfcul (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/10/25 | Predictive Processing, Virtualism and Illusionism: How does Folk Psychology Meet up with the New View of Mind? | 4th Avante Conference : Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, October 24 -26, 2019, Porto, Portugal
AVANT. Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies: University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2018/09/27 | Agency, Memory and the Cognitive Ecology of Artificial Intelligence | Cambridge Singularity Summit: Imagination, Memory, Consciousness, Agency, Values
Jesus College, Cambridge UK. (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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2017/10/12 | The Minimal Self,Virtuality and Predictive Processing | III International Conference on Philosophy of Mind:
University of Minho (Minho, Portugal)
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2017 | Current Social Technology, Near Future Social Robotics | Workshop on Humanoid Robotics and Social Experience
University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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2016/06/11 | Material Engagement and Immaterial Culture: The Cognitive Implications of the Internet | Creative Evolution: Mind, biosocial plasticity and material engagement
Keble College, Oxford University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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2015/10/16 | Can Self be Extended by Technology? | Situating Cognition: Agency, Affect, and Extension: 2nd International Conference in Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies
Avant; University of Warsaw: Graduate School of Social Research: Centre for Philosophical Research: Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
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2015/06/15 | Accounting for Human Cognitive Flexibility and Change. Articulating the interplay of inner and outer | Content or No-Content: the Role of Representations in Early Cognition: SECOND PORTO WORKSHOP ON EMBODIMENT AND SOCIAL COGNITION
MLAG, Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/02/13 - Current | EPISTEMIC AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE MIND-TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM with GEORG THEINER, GLORIA ANDRADA, JUDITH SIMON, KLAUS GAERTNER,
PAUL SMART, ROBERT CLOWES. https://ifilnova.pt/en/events/epistemic-and-ethical-issues-in-the-mind-technology-problem/ (2023/02/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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2023/04/12 - 2023/04/13 | HUMAN AGENCY AND SELF WITHIN THE 21ST CENTURY COGNITIVE ECOLOGY with Mark Coeckelbergh. https://ifilnova.pt/en/events/human-agency-and-self-within-the-21st-century-cognitive-ecology/ (2023/04/12 - 2023/05/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2021/10/21 - 2021/10/22 | Symposium on The Mind-Technology Problem
ORADORES CONVIDADOS: Catarina Dutilh Novaes, J. Adam Carter, Manuel Curado, Ron Chrisley, Steven Fuller, Vincent Müller
ORGANIZAÇÃO: Klaus Gärtner, Robert W. Clowes
https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/symposium-on-the-mind-technology-problem/ (2021/10/21 - 2021/10/22)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
2018/04/23 - 2018/04/23 | Virtualism and the Mind: Rethinking Presence, Representation and the Self (2018/04/23 - 2018/04/23)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2018/10/23 - Current | Presentation on Predictive Processing at an Encounter of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Workshop
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An Encounter of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Romão de Sousa Foundation, Rua Andrade Corvo, 50, 3º Dto, 1050-009 Lisboa, Portugal
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Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2017 - 2019 | Committee Member of Scientific Committee for IFILNOVA
Member
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2007/08 - 2007/09 | Programme committee member for Epigenetic Robotics 2007
Member
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2020/10/02 - Current | Philosophy of Mind | Filosofia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2022/10 - 2023/02 | Mind, Self and 21st Century Technology, Licentiatura: (Undergraduate course taught in English explores how human cognition, mind and sense of self interact with technologies such as social media, artificial intelligence, smart phones. What happens to the human sense of self and our minds as we come to deeply rely on these technologies? What are the prospects for human agency?) | (Bachelor) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2021/10/08 - 2022/01/29 | Mind, Self and 21st Century Technology, Licentiatura: (The undergraduate course taught in English explores how human cognition, mind and sense of self interact with technologies such as social media, artificial intelligence, smart phones. What happens to the human sense of self and our minds as we come to deeply rely on these technologies? What are the prospects for human agency?) | Social Science and Humanities Track (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2019/02 - 2019/06 | Philosophy of Mind | Filosofia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2018/02 - 2018/06 | Philosophy of Science | Filosofia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2022/10/20 | A Good Chess Cheater Might Never Be Caught. The line between human and computer play is very hard to find.Interview with Matteo Wong for the journal The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/hans-niemann-chess-cheating-artificial-intelligence/671799/ | The Atlantic |
Distinctions
Award
2019 | Prémio Santander de Internacionalização da Produção Científica da NOVA FCSH
Banco Santander Portugal, Portugal
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Other distinction
2007 | Commended for being in the top 5% of the operational performance review of teaching at the University of Sussex
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
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