• Contemporary Enactive and Ecological Theories of Cognition

  • Phenomenology

  • American Pragmatism

  • Gestalt Psychology

Academic Employment

01/02/2020 - Present: Research Assistant; Institute for Philosophy (FB 02 Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften); Research Units: BioPhilosophie & Philosophy of Situated Cognition; University of Kassel, Germany.

 

Academic Education
2020 - 2025 - PhD in Philosophy; University of Kassel, Germany; Final Grade: Summa cum Laude;

(Doctoral Defence Date - 6 Mar 2025)


2017 - 2019 - Master of Science (M.Sc.), Cognitive Science; Ruhr University; Bochum, Germany; Final Grade: 1.4 (Very Good).

 

2013 - 2016 - Bachelor in Philosophy (B.A.), Minor in Psychology and Human Sciences; University of Messina, Italy; Final grade: 110/110 (Summa cum Laude).

 

 

Research Abroad

06 Dec 2023 - 14 Dec 2023 - Guest Researcher at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs.


25 Sept 2021 - 28 Oct 2021 - Guest Researcher at the University of Exeter (England) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Giovanna Colombetti.


1 Mar 2018 - 30 Mar 2018 - Guest Researcher at the University of Memphis (United States) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Shaun Gallagher.

Journal Articles

  • Kiverstein, J. & Artese, G. F. (2024). The experience of affordances in an intersubjective world. Topoi, 43(1), 187-200.

  • Artese, G. F. & Michelini, F. (2023). La ricezione di Jakob von Uexküll nella psicologia ecologica e nell’enattivismo. Special Issue: Jakob Von Uexküll. Biological Theory, Subjectivity and Environment. Discipline Filosofiche, XXXIII, 1, 9-44.

  • Artese, G. F. & Kiverstein, J. (2022). The social orders of existence of affordances. Special Issue: Philosophical Psychology and Praxeological Gestalts Social Psychology and Sociology in dialogue with the Philosophers of Gestalt Psychology. Philosophia Scientiæ.263(3), 211-232.

  • Pelucchi, F. & Artese, G. F. (2022). “Che cos’è Gavagai?”. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 15(2).

  • Artese, G. F. (2021). Gurwitsch´s field of consciousness and radical embodied cognitive science: A case of mutual enlightenment. Special Issue: Shaping Actions and Intentions. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 53(2), 177-192.

  • Casper, M. & Artese, G. F. (2020). Maintaining coherence in the situated cognition debate: What computationalism cannot offer to a future post-cognitivist science. Adaptive Behavior, 30(1), 3-17.

  • Artese, G. F. (2019). Conference report: SOPhiA (2019). Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy, 33, 3.

 

Chapters

  • Artese, G. F. (2023). Affordances, the social environment, and the notion of field: State of the debate and methodological insights. In: M. Casper & G. F. Artese (eds.). Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations (Studies in Brain and Mind Vol. 23), pp. 277-305. Cham: Springer.

  • Casper, M. & Artese, G. F. (2023). Introduction. In: M. Casper & G. F. Artese (eds.). Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations (Studies in Brain and Mind Vol. 23), pp. 1-17. Cham: Springer.

  • Casper, M. & Artese, G. F. (2023). A methodological response to the motley crew argument: Explaining cognitive phenomena through enactivism and ethology, In: J. M. Viego, C. Bueno & M. Sanjuán (eds.). Life and Mind. New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences, pp. 27-48. Cham: Springer.

  • Bogotá, J. D. & Artese, G. F. (2022). A Husserlian approach to affectivity and temporality in affordance perception. In: Z. Djebbara (ed.). Affordances in Everyday Life: A Multidisciplinary Collection of Essays, pp. 181-190. Cham: Springer.

 

Edited Volumes

  • Casper, M. O. & Artese, G. F. (eds.). (2023). Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations (Studies in Brain and Mind Vol. 23). Cham: Springer.

  • 09 December 2025 - Research Colloquium: “General Sociology”; University of Konstanz (Germany) (under Invitation). Talk: “Practices of Sense-making”.
  • 28 May 2025 - Conference: “Cognitive Tools in Action”; University of Messina (Italy) - Co-Speaker: Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Talk: “Cognition at Work: Toward a Hands-On Science of the Mind”.
  • 12 Dec 2023 - ResearchColloquium: “Sektion Phänomenologische Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie“; University of Heidelberg (Germany) (under invitation). Talk: “The Experience of Affordances in an Intersubjective World”.
  • 07 June 2023 - Conference: “Mind and Matter 2023”; University of Helsinki (Finland). Poster Presentation: “The Experience of Affordances in an Intersubjective World”.
  • 13 Sept 2022 - Conference: “The 7th Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology; Phenomenology and the Sciences”; University of Padua (Italy). Talk: “Gurwitsch’s Phenomenological System of Science and the Privileged Place of an Enactive-Ecological Perspective”.
  • 25 Apr 2022 - Symposium: “Being Where: Revisiting Behavior Setting Theory”, University of Roskilde (Denmark). Talk: “Behavior Settings and Orders of Existence: Towards a Complete Analysis of the Socio-Cultural Environment”.
  • 29 Oct 2021 - ResearchColloquium: “Cognition and Culture”; Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter (England) (under invitation). Talk: “What the Social Context Affords: Rethinking Affordances through Gurwitsch”.
  • 18 Sept 2021 - Conference: “CILC5: 5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition”; University of Warsaw (Austria); Co-Author Dr.Mark-Oliver Casper.Short Talk: “Risk, Dynamics and an Enactivist Explanatory Strategy”.

  • 14 May 2021 - Conference: “Speaking Bodies. Embodied Cognition at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence”; University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania); Talk: “Affordances and the Totality of the Background: A Functional Perspective”.

  • 07 May 2021 - Conference: “First-Person Science of Consciousness. Theories, Methods, Applications”; Private Universität Witten/Herdecke (Germany); Poster Presentation: “Gurwitsch and Radical Embodied Cognitive Science: A Case of Mutual Enlightenment”.

  • 03 May 2021 - Workshop: “Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences X”; Autonomous University Madrid (Spain) - Co-Speaker: Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Talk: “The Neglected Option of Ethological Explanations: Explaining Cognitive Phenomena through Enactivism and Ethology”.

  • 04 Mar 2021 - Workshop: “Methodology of Situated Cognition Research”; University of Kassel (Germany) - Talk: “Affordances, Context and Attention: An Operationalization of the Concept of Functional Relevance”.

  • 10 Dec 2020 - Workshop: “Philosophical Alliances in Cognitive Science. The Case of Pragmatism and Enactivism”; University of Kassel (Germany). Talk: “The Ontology of the Lived Space: The Pluralistic Option”.

  • 05 Nov 2020 - Workshop: “Please Restart Revolution? Computational Post-Cognitivism PROS & CONS”; University of Kassel (Germany). Talk: “The Challenge of Biological Embodiment in the Context of Computational Enactivism”.

  • 20 Sept 2019 - SOPhiA 2019; University of Salzburg (Austria). Talk: “The Limits of Neuro-Reductionism”.

  • 18 Aug 2018 - Fifth Students Congress for Philosophy in Cologne 2018; University of Cologne (Germany) - Talk: “The Third Extended Mind Wave: Enactivism Meets Predictive Processing”.

  • Research Colloquium: “BioPhilosophie Colloquium”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; co-directed with Dr. Francesca Michelini and Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Summer Semester 2026.

  • Seminar: “Science and Values: The Place of Subjectivity in a World of Facts”. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2026.
  • Seminar: “Introduction to Existentialism”. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2026.
  • Seminar: “Sociality, Identity and Experience”. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2025.
  • Seminar: “Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Self and its Disorders”. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy. Winter Semester 2024/2025.

  • Seminar: “Maurice Merleau-Ponty - The Phenomenology of Perception”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy. Summer Semester 2024.

  • Research Colloquium: “BioPhilosophie Colloquium”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; co-directed with Dr. Francesca Michelini and Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Summer Semester 2023.

  • Seminar: “The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind”. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy; Summer Semester 2023.

  • Seminar: “Sartre’s Theory of the Self and Emotions”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; Winter Semester 2022/2023.

  • Research Coloquium: “BioPhilosophie Colloquium”. University of Kassel, Institute of Philosophy; co-directed with Dr. Francesca Michelini Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Summer Semester 2022.

  • Seminar: “Biological and Artificial Minds”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; Summer Semester 2022.

  • Research Colloquium: “BioPhilosophie Colloquium”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; co-directed with Dr. Francesca Michelini and Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Winter Semester 2021/2022.

  • Research Colloquium: “Contemporary Philosophy of Mind”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; co-directed with Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper; Winter Semester 2021/2022.

  • Seminar: “One World, Multiple Realities or Something in Between? - Essays on the Metaphysics of the Environment”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; Winter Semester 2021/2022.

  • Seminar: “Psychiatry, Mental Disorders and the Existential Dimension”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; Summer Semester 2021.

  • Research Colloquium: “Situated Cognition”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy; co-directed with Prof. Dr. Yvonne Förster and Dr. Mark-Oliver Casper. Winter Semester 2020/2021.

  • Seminar: “An Introduction to the History of Phenomenology”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy. Winter Semester 2020/2021.

  • Seminar: “Enactivist Interventions: An Introductory Course into the Philosophy of Embodied Cognition”. University of Kassel; Institute of Philosophy. Summer Semester 2020.