I participate with a chater with Louise Barrett and Paco Calvo on Ecological Psychology and Comparative Cognition. It will be OA soon (I will repost it again), but here you can see the complete table of contents: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Miguel Segundo Ortin
The Dutch newspaper Trouw publishes a “review” of my book by a guy who admits to not having read it, calls me a biologist, uses “counterarguments” that I refute in my book, and shows absolutely zero understanding of animal behaviour. The audacity.
Our thematic collection on Progress in radical embodiment is now published in the May 2026 issue of Topoi
Issue here
link.springer.com/journal/1124...
Our editorial introduction here
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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On top of that, we had 13 presentations by researchers all around the World.
The atmosphere was very friendly and collegial, with a lot of stimulating and enriching converstations conversations.
Last few weeks have been very intensive, productive and beautiful. May 5th to 7th, we hosted in Murcia what I think is the first (if you know more, please let me know) conference on embodied cognition and comparative psychology. Here is the website: embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site
Aaaaaand, last but not least, after almost 3 years of intensive work, Routledge published the Routledge International Handbook of Ecological Psychology. This is the most complete, up to date volume on ecological psychology, covering all sorts of topics, from the basics to its potencial applications.
We had six amazing keynotes by Louise Barrett, @susanamonso.com, Lucia Jacobs, @philosobio.bsky.social, Aditya Ponkshe and Paco Calvo, convering topics from olfaction, to biological transitions, to animal games and plant cognition. It was amazing.
The Routledge International Handbook of Ecological Psychology provides the definitive international reference for understanding how humans perceive and control goal-directed behavior in everyday envir...