Ezequiel Di Paolo

Ikerbasque Research Professor, UPV/EHU

Ikerbasque Research Professor at IAS-Research Group UPV/EHU.

Research line:

Embodied and social cognition, Philosophy of Mind, Evolutionary robotics, Complexity, Computational neuroscience, Biological modelling.

Reader at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) and Centre for Research in Cognitive Systems (COGS), University of Sussex, 2000 - 2009. Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Artificial Life.

PhD Degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex, UK, 1999.

2024

Chapter / Existentialism and cognitive science

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism, Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781350227446

Michael Wheeler, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Chapter / The Enactive Approach

The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (2nd Edition)

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Evan Thompson

Chapter / El enfoque enactivo y la naturalización de la mente

Hacia una concepción integral de la mente. Más allá del cognitivismo

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Article / Evald Ilyenkov and the enactive approach

Studies in East European Thought

Di Paolo, E.A.; Potapov, K.

2023

Article / Does agency come in levels?

Spontaneous Generations

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Article / Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices: Beyond Material Agency

Philosophy and Technology

Di Paolo, E.A.; Lawler, D.; Vaccari, A.P.

Article / The theoretical foundations of enaction: Precariousness

BioSystems

Beer, R.D.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / F/acts Ways of Enactive Worldmaking

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Di Paolo, E.A.

2022

Article / Laying down a forking path: Tensions between enaction and the free energy principle

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Evan Thompson, Randall D. Beer

Article / Effects of guided exploration on reaching measures of auditory peripersonal space

Frontiers in Psychology

Hüg, M.X.; Bermejo, F.; Tommasini, F.C.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / Enactive Ethics: Difference Becoming Participation

Topoi

Di Paolo, E.A.; De Jaegher, H.

Article / Embodiment in online psychotherapy: A qualitative study

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice

García, E.; Di Paolo, E.A.; De Jaegher, H.

Article / What Needs to Change for Us to Love a Place?

Constructivist Foundations

Di Paolo, E.A.

Letter / On symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

PAIN

Iñigo R. Arandia, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Letter / On symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

Pain

Arandia, I.R.; DI Paolo, E.A.

Note / Markov border crossings: Comment on “The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference” by Vicente Raja et al.

Physics of Life Reviews

Di Paolo, E.A.

Note / A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?” by Miguel Aguilera et al.

Physics of Life Reviews

Di Paolo, E.A.

2021

Book / Enaction and Ecological Psychology: Convergences and Complementarities

Di Paolo, E. A., Chemero, A., Heras-Escribano, M., McGann, M.

Chapter / A concepção enativa da vida

Deseducando a educação: Mentes, materialidades e metáforas

Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / Bridges and hobby-horses: John Stewart’s adventure of ideas

Adaptive Behavior

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Article / Letting language be: reflections on enactive method

Filosofia Unisinos - Unisinos Journal of Philosophy

Cuffari, E. C., Di Paolo, E. A, De Jaegher, H.

Article / Placebo from an enactive perspective

Frontiers in Psychology

Arandia, I. R. and Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / Enactive ethics: Difference becoming participation.

Topoi

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Hanne De Jaegher

Article / Enactive becoming

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / Placebo From an Enactive Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology

Arandia, I.R.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / Bridges and hobby-horses: John Stewart’s adventure of ideas

Adaptive Behavior

Di Paolo, E.A.

Review / Critical integration in neural and cognitive systems: Beyond power-law scaling as the hallmark of soft assembly

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Aguilera, M.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Review / Letting language be: Reflections on enactive method

Filosofia Unisinos

Cuffari, E.C.; Di Paolo, E.A.; de Jaegher, H.

2020

Chapter / Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy. Life, Environments, Anthropology

Francesca Michelini and Kristian Köchy

Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / How your own becoming feels

Emotion Review

Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / Enaction and ecological psychology: Convergences and complementarities

Frontiers in Psychology

McGann, M., Di Paolo E. A., Heras-Escribano, M., and Chemero, A.

Article / Learning to find spatially reversed sounds

Scientific Reports

Bermejo, F.; Di Paolo, E.A.; Gilberto, L.G.; Lunati, V.; Barrios, M.V.

Article / Picturing Organisms and Their Environments: Interaction, Transaction, and Constitution Loops

Frontiers in Psychology

Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / Rediscovering Richard Held: Activity and Passivity in Perceptual Learning

Frontiers in Psychology

Bermejo, F.; Hüg, M.X.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / Process and Individuation: The Development of Sensorimotor Agency

Human Development

Di Paolo, E.A.

Editorial / Editorial: Enaction and Ecological Psychology: Convergences and Complementarities

Frontiers in Psychology

McGann, M.; Di Paolo, E.A.; Heras-Escribano, M.; Chemero, A.

Note / Comment: How Your Own Becoming Feels

Emotion Review

Di Paolo, E.A.

Note / Why do we build the wall?

Adaptive Behavior

Di Paolo, E.A.

2019

Article / Integrated information in the thermodynamic limit

Neural Networks

Aguilera, M.; A. Di Paolo, E.

Article / Microphenomenology of first encounters: A sympathetic Critique

Constructivist Foundations

Di Paolo, E.A.; De Jaegher, H.

Note / Afterword: A future for Jakob von Uexküll

Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy: Life, Environments, Anthropology

Di Paolo, E.A.

2018

Book / Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity Between Life and Language

Di Paolo, E. A., Cuffari, E., and De Jaegher, H.

Chapter / The Oxford Handbook of Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended

A. Newen, S. Gallagher, L. de Bruin

Di Paolo, E. A.

Note / Embodied coordination and psychotherapeutic outcome: Beyond direct mappings

Frontiers in Psychology

García, E.; Di Paolo, E.A.

2017

Book / Sensorimotor life: An enactive proposal

Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal

Di Paolo, E.A.; Buhrmann, T.; Barandiaran, X.E.

Chapter / Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture

Durt, C., Fuchs, T., Tewes, C.

Di Paolo, E. A. and De Jaegher, H

Article / The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Buhrmann, T.; Di Paolo, E.

2016

Article / Deterministic agent-based path optimization by mimicking the spreading of ripples

Evolutionary Computation

Hu, X.B.; Wang, M.; Leeson, M.S.; Di Paolo, E.A.; Liu, H.

Article / What does the interactive brain hypothesis mean for social neuroscience? A dialogue

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

De Jaegher, H.; Di Paolo, E.; Adolphs, R.

Note / Across the uncanny valley: The ecological, the enactive, and the strangely familiar

Constructivist Foundations

Di Paolo, E.

2015

Book / Towards an embodied science of intersubjectivity: Widening the scope of social understanding research

Ezequiel Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher

Article / From participatory sense-making to language: there and back again

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Cuffari, E.C.; Di Paolo, E.; De Jaegher, H.

Article / Locked-in syndrome: a challenge for embodied cognitive science

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Kyselo, M.; Di Paolo, E.

Article / Interactive time-travel: On the intersubjective Retro-modulation of intentions

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Paolo, E.D.

Article / Sensorimotor strategies for recognizing geometrical shapes: A comparative study with different sensory substitution devices

Frontiers in Psychology

Bermejo, F.; Di Paolo, E.; Hüg, M.X.; Arias, C.

2014

Book / The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics

Vargas, P., Di Paolo, E. A., Harvey, I., Husbands, P.

Chapter / The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics

Vargas, P., Di Paolo, E. A., Harvey, I., Husbands, P.

Chapter / The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics

Vargas, P., Di Paolo, E. A., Harvey, I., Husbands, P.

Vaughan, E., Di Paolo, E. A., Harvey, I.

Chapter / The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics

Vargas, P., Di Paolo, E. A., Harvey, I., Husbands, P.

Harvey, I. and Di Paolo, E. A.

Chapter / The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition

Lawrence Shapiro

Di Paolo, E. A. and Thompson, E.

Chapter / Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making Making Sense of Non-Sense

M. Cappuccio and T. Froese

Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / The Gomi legacy

Adaptive Behavior

Husbands, P.; Di Paolo, E.

Article / Spinal circuits can accommodate interaction torques during multijoint limb movements

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Buhrmann, T.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / Learning to perceive in the sensorimotor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Di Paolo, E.A.; Barandiaran, X.E.; Beaton, M.; Buhrmann, T.

Note / The worldly constituents of perceptual presence

Frontiers in Psychology

Di Paolo, E.A.

Review / A genealogical map of the concept of habit

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Barandiaran, X.E.; Di Paolo, E.A.

2013

Chapter / Nueva ciencia cognitiva: Hacia una teoría integral de la mente

D. P. Chico and M. G. Bedia

Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / Enaction and psychology

Review of General Psychology

McGann, M., De Jaegher, H. and Di Paolo, E.

Article / A dynamical systems account of sensorimotor contingencies

Frontiers in Psychology

Buhrmann, T.; Di Paolo, E.A.; Barandiaran, X.

Article / Calculating complete and exact pareto front for multiobjective optimization: A new deterministic approach for discrete problems

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Hu, X.B.; Wang, M.; Di Paolo, E.

Article / Enactivism is not interactionism

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

De Jaegher, H.; Di Paolo, E.

Letter / One step forward, two steps back - not the Tango: Comment on Gallotti and Frith

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Di Paolo, E.A.; De Jaegher, H.; Gallagher, S.

2012

Article / Sense-making with Ezequiel Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher interview

Avant

Di Paolo, E.; De Jaegher, H.

Article / The interactive brain hypothesis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Di Paolo, E.; De Jaegher, H.

Article / Unreliable gut feelings can lead to correct decisions: The somatic marker hypothesis in non-linear decision chains

Frontiers in Psychology

Bedia, M.G.; Di Paolo, E.

Article / Behavioral metabolution: The adaptive and evolutionary potential of metabolism-based chemotaxis

Artificial Life

Egbert, M.D.; Barandiaran, X.E.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Note / Enactivism is not interactionism

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

De Jaegher, H.; Di Paolo, E.

2011

Chapter / The Continuum Companion to Existentialism

J. Reynolds, A. Woodward, F. Joseph

Wheeler, M. and Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / The enactive approach Theoretical sketches from cell to society

Pragmatics and Cognition

Froese, T.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Article / Deterministic ripple-spreading model for complex networks

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Hu, X.B.; Wang, M.; Leeson, M.S.; Hines, E.L.; Di Paolo, E.

2010

Book / Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

Stewart, J., Gapenne, O., Di Paolo, E. A.

Stewart, J., Di Paolo, E. A., Gapenne, O.

Book / Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

J. Stewart, O. Gapenne and E. A. Di Paolo

Chapter / Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

J. Stewart, O. Gapenne and E. A. Di Paolo

Di Paolo, E. A., Rohde, M. and De Jaegher, H.

Chapter / Living Technology: 5 Questions

Mark Bedau, Pelle Guldborg Hansen, Emily Parke, Steen Rasmussen

Di Paolo, E. A.

Article / Robotics inspired in the organism

Intellectica

Di Paolo, Ezequiel

Article / Can social interaction constitute social cognition?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

De Jaegher, H.; Di Paolo, E.; Gallagher, S.

Article / A minimal model of metabolism-based chemotaxis

PLoS Computational Biology

Egbert, M.D.; Barandiaran, X.E.; di Paolo, E.A.

From Body to Self -Towards a Socially Enacted Autonomy, With Implications for Locked-in Syndrome and Schizophrenia

University of Osnabrück

Miriam Kyselo - Finished

Metabolism, Behaviour and Adaptation: Self-Sensitive Behaviour in Protocells

University of Sussex

Matthew Egbert - Finished

On the intrinsic control properties of muscles and reflexes

University of Sussex

Thomas Buehrmann - Finished

Behavioural Robustness and the Distributed Mechanisms Hypothesis

University of Sussex

Jose Fernandez-Leon - Finished

Sociality and the Life-Mind Continuity Thesis: A Study in Evolutionary Robotics

University of Sussex

Tom Froese - Finished

Small but Perfectly Formed: Evolutionary Robotics Models of 'Minimal' Developmental Systems

University of Sussex

Rachel Wood - Finished

Evolutionary Robotics Simulation Models in the Study of Human Behaviour and Cognition

University of Sussex

Marieke Rohde - Finished

Evolving Dynamical System Models of Path Integration

University of Sussex

Robert Vickerstaff - Finished

The Evolving Functional Circle Hypothesis: A Study of Autonomous Robots with Evolvable Morphologies

University of Sussex

Ian Macinnes - Finished

The Evolution of the Chemoton

University of Sussex

Chrisantha Fernando - Finished

The Evolution of the Omni-Directional Bipedal Robot

University of Sussex

Eric Vaughan - Finished

Exploring Developmental Dynamics in Evolved Neural Network Controllers

University of Sussex

Andy Baalam - Finished

2021

Conference paper | Enacting hope

Cuffari, E. C., Di Paolo, E. A, De Jaegher, H.

Conference paper | Placebo from an enactive perspective.

Arandia, I. R. and Di Paolo, E. A.

Conference paper | Social interaction and not just social skills affect placebo phenomena

Arandia, I. R. and Di Paolo, E. A.

2020

Conference Paper | Integrated information and autonomy in the thermodynamic limit

ALIFE 2018 - 2018 Conference on Artificial Life: Beyond AI - Conference Paper

Aguilera, M.; Di Paolo, E.A.

2019

Invited talk | Linguistic bodies: development, autism, languaging

2nd Meeting on Cognition & Language - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A., Cuffari, E. C., De Jaegher, H.

Invited talk | Linguistic bodies: context, enaction, model

2nd Meeting on Cognition & Language - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A., Cuffari, E. C., De Jaegher, H.

2018

Invited talk | The dialectics of acting: agency, performance, and materiality from an enactive perspective

Conference on Enactivism: Theory and Performance - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Dynamics, materiality, and concreteness: An enactive perspective

48th Annual Conference of the Jean Piaget Society - Invited talk

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Invited talk | The dialectics of embodiment and the enactive conception of life

IV Bordeaux-San Sebastian Workshop on Philosophy of Biology, Medicine and Cognitive Sciences - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | From Sensorimotor Agency to Linguistic Bodies: An Enactive Roadmap

International Conference on Time, the Body and the Others - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

2016

Conference Paper | A simulation study on air traffic control strategies

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA) - Conference Paper

Hu, X.B.; Liao, J.Q.; Di Paolo, E.

Conference Paper | Listening to a world transformed: Perception in an inverted acoustic field.

Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016, ALIFE 2016 - Conference Paper

Bermejo, F.; Di Paolo, E.; Arias, C.

Invited talk | The enactive notion of life

Workshop: The Biological Foundations of Enactivism - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

2015

Oral presentation | Reconocer figuras geométricas con un dispositivo de sustitución sensorial

XV Reunión Nacional y IV Encuentro Internacional de la Asociación Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento y 2º Congreso Argentino de Biología del Comportamiento - Oral presentation

Bermejo F., Lunati V., Hüg M. X., Di Paolo E. A., Arias C.

2014

Conference Paper | Non-representational sensorimotor knowledge

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) - Conference Paper

Buhrmann, T.; Di Paolo, E.

Invited talk | Enactivism Moving forward: Language and the Human Self.

Conference on Enacting Culture: Embodiment, Interaction and the Development of Human Culture - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Participatory sense-making and heteronomies

Workshop on Interacting Complexity: Cognition and Communication in Conflict Transformation - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

2013

Conference Paper | A ripple-spreading algorithm to calculate the k best solutions to the project time management problem

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, CISched 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013 - Conference Paper

Hu, X.B.; Wang, M.; Sun, Q.; Leeson, M.S.; Di Paolo, E.

Conference Paper | A ripple-spreading algorithm for route optimization

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, FOCI 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013 - Conference Paper

Hu, X.B.; Hu, X.B.; Wang, M.; Sun, Q.; Leeson, M.S.; Di Paolo, E.

Invited talk | Intersubjetividad y participación: La cognición social corporizada desde el paradigma enactivo

I Encuentro de Filosofía de las Ciencias Cognitivas y del Comportamiento - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Invited talk | El enfoque enactivo en ciencias cognitivas: Hacia un naturalismo no funcionalista y corporizado

I Encuentro de Filosofía de las Ciencias Cognitivas y del Comportamiento - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Interactive time-travelling

TESIS 1st International Conference. Enactive and Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | The enactive body

From perceptual interaction to extended cognition - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Not one, not two (reloaded)

II ReteCog Workshop. Interaction. - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Intersubjetividad y participación: La cognición social corporizada desde el paradigma enactivo

I Encuentro de Filosofía de las Ciencias Cognitivas y del Comportamiento, - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | El enfoque enactivo en ciencias cognitivas: Hacia un naturalismo no funcionalista y corporizado

I Encuentro de Filosofía de las Ciencias Cognitivas y del Comportamiento, - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | The enactive body

Workshop: From perceptual interaction to extended cognition - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Not one, not two (reloaded).

II ReteCog Workshop. Interaction - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

2012

Conference Paper | A ripple-spreading algorithm for the k shortest paths problem

Proceedings - 2012 3rd Global Congress on Intelligent Systems, GCIS 2012 - Conference Paper

Hu, X.B.; Wang, M.; Hu, D.; Leeson, M.S.; Hines, E.L.; Di Paolo, E.

Invited talk | Agency, incorporation and non-individuals: Time and precariousness in networked individuality

Workshop on Autonomy and Individual Organisms in Biology - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | The enactive body – Where life, mind and society intersect

Mind and Life Summer Research Institute - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Walking circles around a problem: The parallax epistemology of enactivism

Embodying intersubjectivity research TESIS Summer School - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

2011

Invited talk | Participatory Sense-Making

Intersubjectivity from Birth for Life: A Celebration for Colwyn Trevarthen - Invited talk

De Jaegher, H. and Di Paolo, E.

Poster presentation | Modelling sensorimotor habits with neuro-robotics: A reappraisal of the habit concept in psychology

ESCOP 2011, 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology - Poster presentation

Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo, E. A.

2010

Conference Paper | Homeostatic plasticity in robots: From development to operant conditioning to habit formation

4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems, CogSys 2010 - Conference Paper

Barandiaran, X.E.; Di Paolo, E.

Conference Paper | Behavioral metabolution: Metabolism based behavior enables new forms of adaptation and evolution

Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010 - Conference Paper

Egbert, M.D.; Barandiaran, X.E.; Di Paolo, E.A.

Invited talk | How the mind shapes the body

Enaction School, 2010 - Invited talk

Di Paolo. E. A.

Invited talk | The Social Invisible

Embodiment, Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology, International Conference - Invited talk

E. A. Di Paolo

Invited talk | The Social Invisible

Embodiment, Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology, International Conference - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | How the Mind Shapes the Body

Enaction School 2010 - Invited talk

Di Paolo, E. A.

Invited talk | Does social interaction constitute social cognition?

Winter Symposium on Dynamic Models and Social Interaction - Invited talk

De Jaegher, H. and Di Paolo, E. A.

Oral presentation | Through the Enactive Eye â€“ Locked-in Syndrome as a Challenge for Embodied Cognition

10th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, KogWis 2010 - Oral presentation

Kyselo, M. and Di Paolo, E. A.

Poster presentation | Homeostatic plasticity in robots

4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems. CogSys, 2010 - Poster presentation

Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo, E. A.