[SydPhil] Reminder: Agora Speaker Series – Professor Mario Villalobos, Thursday 21 March, 3.30PM to 5.00 PM, 20-4, University of Wollongong

[Elena Walsh]

Reminder:

The School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong invites you to attend
the


Agora Speaker Series

Thursday 21 March, 3.30 to 5.00pm, Building 20.4

This is an in-person event at the University of Wollongong

*Agora Speaker Series – Professor* *Mario Villalobos**, Thursday 21 March,
3.30PM to 5.00 PM, 20-4, University of Wollongong*

Professor Mario Villalobos (University of Tarapaca, Chile)

*Guidelines for an Autopoietic Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness*

With a primarily epistemological focus, autopoietic theory has long and
emphatically argued for a constructivist and anti-representational
conception of perceptual experience. However, it has said little or almost
nothing about the phenomenal dimension of said experience considered in
itself (i.e., disregarding its epistemological status). For instance, while
it is relatively clear how autopoietic notions such as operational closure
and structural determinism ground an anti-representational epistemology, it
is not clear how they might contribute (if at all) to explaining
phenomenality as such. Overall, autopoietic theory has remained notably
silent about phenomenal consciousness as a philosophical problem. In this
talk, I analyse the theory's central philosophical/methodological
commitments and outline, in conversation with some extant theories of
consciousness (e.g., enactivism, IIT), the guidelines of what might become
an autopoietic approach to phenomenal consciousness.


Mario Villalobos followed undergraduate studies in medicine (University of
Concepción, Chile) and psychology (Pontifical Catholic University of
Chile). He obtained a master’s in philosophy at the University of Chile and
received his PhD in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science from the
University of Edinburgh. Since 2016, he is an Associate Professor of
Philosophy at the School of Psychology and Philosophy, University of
Tarapaca, Chile, and from 2022 to 2023, he was appointed an associate
researcher in the Department of Philosophy in The School of Media, Arts and
Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. His main area of research is the
philosophical development of the autopoietic theory of living beings and
cognition.



The event will be held in Building 20-4, University of Wollongong. All
welcome!



Warm regards,

School of Liberal Arts





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