Miguel Segundo-Ortin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel Segundo-Ortin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | Segundo-Ortin |
| SIGNATURE | SEGUNDO-ORTIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3787-0013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching & Learning Guide for
The study of plant cognition has emerged as a provocative and rapidly developing area at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and plant biology. Long-standing assumptions that restrict cognition to organisms with nervous systems have been challenged by empirical research documenting flexible, context-sensitive, and goal-directed behaviours in plants. These findings raise foundational questions: What counts as cognition? How should i…
Plant Cognition—An Empirical Primer
Recent advances in plant biology suggest that plants engage in complex behaviours once thought to require nervous systems. This article surveys the empirical foundations of plant cognition, covering research on goal‐directed movement, decision‐making, anticipatory behaviour, communication, phytoacoustics, and plant neurobiology. In addition, we examine evidence for systemic signalling and anaesthesia in plants, alongside parallels and contrasts w…
Plant Cognition—A Methodological Primer
Part I: What counts as cognition, and how can it be studied in organisms without nervous systems? The emerging field of plant cognition confronts these questions by integrating philosophy, plant science and comparative psychology. This article provides a methodological primer on the field. We first survey major theoretical approaches—computationalist and representationalist, radical embodied, and behaviour‐first—and consider how they might be int…
Intentions in Ecological Psychology
According to ecological psychology, agency is a crucial feature of living organisms: therefore many ecological psychologists maintain that explaining agency is one of the core aims of the discipline. This paper aims to contribute to this goal by arguing that an ecological understanding of agency requires an account of intention. So far, intentions have not played a dominant role in ecological accounts of agency. The reluctance to integrate a noti…
Socio-cultural norms in ecological psychology
Although it is a common claim in the ecological psychology literature that our perception of the environment’s affordances is influenced by socio-cultural norms, an explanation of how this is possible remains to be offered. In this paper, I outline an account of this phenomenon by focusing on the ecological theory of perceptual learning. Two main theses are defended. First, I argue that to account for how socio-cultural norms can influence percep…
The risk of trivializing affordances
In the last years, we have attended to different attempts to extend the notion of affordance to include mental or cognitive actions. In short, the idea is that our capacity to perform some cognitive functions such as counting, imagining, mathematical reasoning, and so on, is preceded by our awareness of cognitive or mental affordances. In this paper, we analyze two of these attempts, Mental Affordance Hypothesis, and cognitive horizons, and concl…
Places, Sociality, and Ecological Psychology
Situated self-awareness in expert performance
We explore the nature of expert minds in skilled performance by examining classic Japanese dramatist Zeami’s account of skilled expertise in Noh drama. Zeami characterizes expert minds by the co-existence of mushin and riken no ken . Mushin (“no-mind”) is an empty state of mind devoid of mental contents. Riken no ken (“seeing with a separate seeing”) is a distinctive form of self-awareness, where the actor embodies a common perspective with the a…
Similarity-based cognition
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded
A widely shared assumption in the literature about skilled motor behavior is that any action that is not blindly automatic and mechanical must be the product of computational processes upon mental representations. To counter this assumption, in this paper we offer a radical embodied (non-representational) account of skilled action that combines ecological psychology and the Deweyan theory of habits. According to our proposal, skilful performance …
Distal engagement
Misplacing memories? An enactive approach to the virtual memory palace
Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams
Similarity-based cognition
Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded
A widely shared assumption in the literature about skilled motor behavior is that any action that is not blindly automatic and mechanical must be the product of computational processes upon mental representations. To counter this assumption, in this paper we offer a radical embodied (non-representational) account of skilled action that combines ecological psychology and the Deweyan theory of habits. According to our proposal, skilful performance …
Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams
Misplacing memories? An enactive approach to the virtual memory palace
Distal engagement
Similarity-based cognition
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded
A widely shared assumption in the literature about skilled motor behavior is that any action that is not blindly automatic and mechanical must be the product of computational processes upon mental representations. To counter this assumption, in this paper we offer a radical embodied (non-representational) account of skilled action that combines ecological psychology and the Deweyan theory of habits. According to our proposal, skilful performance …
Situated self-awareness in expert performance
We explore the nature of expert minds in skilled performance by examining classic Japanese dramatist Zeami’s account of skilled expertise in Noh drama. Zeami characterizes expert minds by the co-existence of mushin and riken no ken . Mushin (“no-mind”) is an empty state of mind devoid of mental contents. Riken no ken (“seeing with a separate seeing”) is a distinctive form of self-awareness, where the actor embodies a common perspective with the a…
Places, Sociality, and Ecological Psychology
Intentions in Ecological Psychology
According to ecological psychology, agency is a crucial feature of living organisms: therefore many ecological psychologists maintain that explaining agency is one of the core aims of the discipline. This paper aims to contribute to this goal by arguing that an ecological understanding of agency requires an account of intention. So far, intentions have not played a dominant role in ecological accounts of agency. The reluctance to integrate a noti…
Socio-cultural norms in ecological psychology
Although it is a common claim in the ecological psychology literature that our perception of the environment’s affordances is influenced by socio-cultural norms, an explanation of how this is possible remains to be offered. In this paper, I outline an account of this phenomenon by focusing on the ecological theory of perceptual learning. Two main theses are defended. First, I argue that to account for how socio-cultural norms can influence percep…
The risk of trivializing affordances
In the last years, we have attended to different attempts to extend the notion of affordance to include mental or cognitive actions. In short, the idea is that our capacity to perform some cognitive functions such as counting, imagining, mathematical reasoning, and so on, is preceded by our awareness of cognitive or mental affordances. In this paper, we analyze two of these attempts, Mental Affordance Hypothesis, and cognitive horizons, and concl…
Plant Cognition—A Methodological Primer
Part I: What counts as cognition, and how can it be studied in organisms without nervous systems? The emerging field of plant cognition confronts these questions by integrating philosophy, plant science and comparative psychology. This article provides a methodological primer on the field. We first survey major theoretical approaches—computationalist and representationalist, radical embodied, and behaviour‐first—and consider how they might be int…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
The study of plant cognition has emerged as a provocative and rapidly developing area at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and plant biology. Long-standing assumptions that restrict cognition to organisms with nervous systems have been challenged by empirical research documenting flexible, context-sensitive, and goal-directed behaviours in plants. These findings raise foundational questions: What counts as cognition? How should i…
Plant Cognition—An Empirical Primer
Recent advances in plant biology suggest that plants engage in complex behaviours once thought to require nervous systems. This article surveys the empirical foundations of plant cognition, covering research on goal‐directed movement, decision‐making, anticipatory behaviour, communication, phytoacoustics, and plant neurobiology. In addition, we examine evidence for systemic signalling and anaesthesia in plants, alongside parallels and contrasts w…
Cognition (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Cognitive science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Perception (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (4 works)