#1274 Julian Kiverstein: 4E Cognition, Phenomenology, Culture, and Science
RECORDED ON JUNE 10th 2026.
Dr. Julian Kiverstein is Senior Researcher at the Lemon Tree Center for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently writing a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan entitled The Significance of Phenomenology, and editing a comprehensive handbook for Routledge Taylor Francis on the philosophy of the social mind. He is associate editor of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and was until recently Book Review Editor for the Journal of Consciousness Studies. In 2006 he was one of the main architects of a successful cross disciplinary, Europe-wide project proposal on consciousness, part of the ESF Programme, Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context.
In this episode, we talk about embodied cognition and phenomenology. We discuss evolution, development, self-organization, and cognition. We explore the experience of pain through the lens of embodied predictive processing. We talk about the feeling of being alive and sentience. We talk about how we can understand the self through the Free Energy Principle. We discuss what the boundaries of the mind are. Finally, we talk about culture and enculturation through an ecological-enactive perspective, and how we can understand the institution of science through this perspective.
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Intro
Embodied cognition and phenomenology
Evolution, development, self-organization, and cognition
The experience of pain through the lens of embodied predictive processing
The feeling of being alive
Understanding the self through the Free Energy Principle
What are the boundaries of the mind?
Culture and enculturation through an ecological-enactive perspective
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