Miriam Kyselo

Prof. _B8A5371Dr. Miriam Kyselo has been a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the San Sebastian node. She is now a working as a visiting Professor of Philosophy of Cognition at the Technical University Berlin. Prof. Kyselo is also the leader of “Inter-Self Lab”, an interdisciplinary research group investigating embodied selfhood and social cognition and a principal investigator in “Science of Intelligence” a cluster of the German Excellence Strategy Program.

In her work she is taking an enactive and system theoretic stance on cognitive science, aiming to shed light on the concepts of self and body and their interrelation to sociality. She is also interested in psychopathology, life with bodily impairment and relationship dynamics.

Prof. Kyselo’s areas and interests include:

  • Philosophy of cognitive science (in particular embodied, enactive, extended approaches to cognition)
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of psychiatry and disorders of the self
  • Self-constitution and embodied intersubjectivity in dance (Contact improvisation) and other somatic practices