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Joan Camarena

PhD Candidate

Department of Philosophy
University of Valencia (Spain)

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I have a degree in Philosophy from the University of the Basque Country and a Master in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Salamanca (Spain). I am currently a PhD student and ACIF fellow at the University of Valencia, under the supervision of Marc Artiga, and I am doing a research stay at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy and EMRG Lab thanks to the grant "CIBEPF. Fons Social Europeu" grant from the Valencian Government.
My main areas of interest focus on the intersection of philosophy of biology and philosophy of neuroscience from the perspective of ecological psychology. Specifically, my work is motivated by several points. First, in developing a sufficiently robust and broad conceptual framework based on constraints that can be applied in both biology and neuroscience. Second, I am interested in studying the evolutionary role of affordances in biology. And third, I am interested in studying the processes of synaptogenesis and neural development, and in general the role of the central nervous system, from an ecological perspective.

• "Constraints and Invariants: A Processual Ontology to Ecological Psychology," in CLMPST-2023, the 17th edition of the International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology. At Buenos Aires (Argentina), 25 July 2023
• "A Processual Ontology to Ecological Psychology," in ISHPSSB 2023 Biennial Meeting, University of Toronto (Canada), July 13, 2023 (online)
• "Is an ecological neuroscience possible?", in XI Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences, at University of Salamanca (Spain). November 4th, 2022
• "Ecological Psychology and Neurosciences: Two narratives condemned to understand each other," in V SLMFCE Postgraduate Congress, at University of Valladolid (Spain). June 14th, 2022
• "Marx as a philosopher of the mind? A reflection on the philosophy of praxis through Cognition 4E," in XXIV Valencian Congress of Philosophy, at University of Jaume I (Spain). April 7th, 2021
• "Neo-Cartesianism as a dead end: how ecological psychology fits better in the cognitive sciences," in X Congress of the Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Spain, at University of Salamanca (Spain). November 16th, 2021.