Interactivist Summer Institute

July 22 - 26, 2003

Copenhagen

Frontiers of Interactivism

Mark H. Bickhard

The interactivist model has grown to address issues over a wide range, from philosophy to neuroscience, from persons to robots. Nevertheless, there are multiple lacunae and innumerable frontiers that remain. I will develop this point with several examples, focusing in particular on biology (e.g., the emergence of the biosphere), language (e.g., the unacceptability of the syntax, semantics, pragmatics framework), consciousness (e.g., phenomenology and neurophysiology), and social emergence (e.g., the social ontology of persons and the multifarious elaborations of situation conventions).