about
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miriam Kyselo
Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist
I am a philosopher and cognitive scientist, and I am especially interested in the relationship between self, embodiment and social cognition. Currently I work as an Associate Professor in Philosophy at NTNU. I am also a Principal Investigator in Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), an interdisciplinary research cluster funded by Germany’s Excellence Strategy Program. I have previously founded the INTERSELF lab bringing together researchers from philosophy and psychology to investigate embodied selfhood and intersubjectivity.
My research goal is to advance an interdisciplinary theory of the embodied social self to help to better understand the dynamics between self, body and social cognition. My approach is grounded in a relational ontology and relies particularly on enactive cognition and system-theoretic principles of self-organisation and autonomy. I argue that even the minimal self is socially constituted and an open and processual phenomenon.
In the Excellence Cluster “SCIoI”, I join forces with great colleagues from various disciplines, including robotics, psychology, philosophy, biology, AI and mathematics to understand one of the greatest research challenges of our time: what is intelligence? I particularly focus on the theoretical foundations of embodied and social intelligence (in biological and artificial systems) and collaborate with roboticists and psychologists to understand selfhood and social cognition.
I have a background in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, philosophy of AI, phenomenology and philosophy of psychology. In my work I adopt an interdisciplinary perspective: I focus in particular on the 4E-approaches to cognition and I dialogue and work with the fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy research and the cognitive sciences, especially with psychology, robotics and neuroscience.
miriam kyselo - interself 