Dr. Giovanni Rolla

Hi there! I'm a philosopher working as a professor of Philosophy at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil. I'm a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Philosophy and a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Teaching, Philosophy and History of Science, both at UFBA. My research is about enactivism, ecological psychology and radically embodied cognition in general (sometimes I deal with traditional epistemology as well, especially know-how, normativity and rationality). I'm also a founding member of the Enactive Cognition and Narrative Practices research group (University of Wollongong), and a founding member of the Cognition, Language, Enaction and Affectivity research group.

Publications

Do Babies Represent

Giovanni Rolla

Synthese, vol. 200(278 (online article)), 2022

Ecological-enactive scientific cognition: modeling and material engagement

Giovanni Rolla, Felipe Novaes

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 21, 2022, pp. 625–643

Virtual Reality, Embodiment, and Allusion: an Ecological-Enactive Approach

Giovanni Rolla, Guilherme Vasconcelos, Nara M. Figueiredo

Philosophy & Technology, vol. 35(95 (online article)), 2022

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Projects

Information in the Ecological-Enactive Approach

We try to combine central theses to the ecological-enactive approach to cognition—namely, the priority of action in the explanation of cognition and the claim that not all cognition is representational—with the more traditional view that cognition nec...

Posts

Sep 20, 2023

Academia de Platão

Recentemente eu criei uma estampa com os dizeres "Academia de Platão - desde 384 a.C" e com uma imagem de Platão maromba gerada por inteligência artificial (MidJourney). Eu guardo essa regata especificamente para o meu treino favorito — obviamente, o t...

Bebês representam? Sobre um argumento falho em favor do representacionalismo [RECFIL, 2023]

Mar 25, 2023

Algumas reflexões sobre o incidente Sartre/Brad Pitt

Talvez você tenha ouvido falar no rumor de que um filme biográfico sobre Jean Paul Sartre (o Ser e o Nada) estaria em produção estrelando Brad Pitt. O ator de Clube da Luta interpretaria o filósofo francês, e Eva Green (Os Sonhadores) faria o papel de ...