Curriculum Vitae — Paco Calvo, PhD (Glasgow, 2000)
Minimal Intelligence Lab, Department of Philosophy, University of Murcia (Spain)
http://www.um.es/web/minimal-‐intelligence-‐lab
fjcalvo@um.es
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of cognitive science; plant neurobiology; ecological psychology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Calvo, P. Plant Cognition: The Next Revolution. (book manuscript in preparation).
Edited books
Calvo, Symons. 2014. The architecture of cognition: rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn’s
systematicity challenge. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Symons, Calvo. 2009. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology. Oxford
& New York: Routledge.
Calvo, Gomila. 2008. Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach.
Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Articles
Calvo, Friston. 2017. Predicting Green: Really Radical (Plant) Predictive Processing.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 14, 20170096.
Calvo. 2017 What is it like to be a plant? Journal of Consciousness Studies 24, 205–
27.
Calvo, Sahi, Trewavas. 2017. Are plants sentient?, Plant, Cell & Environment 40,
2858–2869.
Raja, Calvo. 2017. Augmented reality: An ecological blend. Cognitive Systems
Research 42, 58–72.
Calvo. 2016. The philosophy of plant neurobiology: a manifesto. Synthese 193, 1323–
1343.
Calvo, Baluška, Sims. 2016. ‘Feature detection’ versus ‘predictive coding’ models of
plant behavior. Frontiers in Psychology 7, 1505.
Calvo, Baluška. 2015 Conditions for minimal intelligence across eukaryota: A cognitive
science perspective. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 1329.
Laakso, Calvo. 2011. How Many Mechanisms are Needed to Analyze Speech?: A
Connectionist Simulation of Structural Rule Learning in Language Acquisition.
Cognitive Science 35, 1243-1281.
Calvo, Keijzer. 2011. Plants: Adaptive behavior, root brains and minimal cognition.
Adaptive Behavior 19, 155-171.
García, Calvo. 2010. Is cognition a matter of representations?: Emulation, teleology,
and time-keeping in biological systems. Adaptive Behavior 18, 400-415.
Calvo, García. 2009. Where is cognitive science heading? Minds and Machines 19,
301-318.
Calvo. 2008. Towards a General Theory of Antirepresentationalism. The British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science 59, 259-292.
Calvo. 2003. Connectionist Semantics and the Collateral Information Challenge. Mind
and Language 18, 77-94.
Calvo. 2000. State Space Semantics and Conceptual Similarity: Reply to Churchland.
Philosophical Psychology 13, 77-95.
Calvo. 2000. A Connectionist Defence of the Inscrutability Thesis. Mind and Language,
15, 465-480.
Recent conferences and invited presentations
(2017)
“Of
animals
and
plants:
the
direct
perception
of
climbability”
(Commentary
on
Prof.
Mohan
Matthen
“The
Perceptual
Representation
of
Space”).
Edinburgh
(UK).
(2016)
“Plant
cognition:
the
next
revolution”
Cell
and
Molecular
Biology
Seminar
Series,
Edinburgh
(UK);
Cognitive
Science
Society
Lecture,
Edinburgh
(UK).
(2016)
“Guidance
of
circumnutation
of
climbing
bean
stems:
an
ecological
exploration”.
4th
International
Symposium
on
Plant
Signaling
and
Behavior,
Saint
Petersburg
(Russia).
(2014)
“Peppermint:
Principles
of
ecological
psychology
for
minimal
intelligence.”
De-‐Intellectualizing
the
mind
workshop.
UNED,
Madrid.
(2014)
“Probabilistic
predictive
processing
vs.
ecological
psychology
models
of
plant
intelligence”.
International
Symposium
on
Plant
Signaling
and
Behavior.
Delhi
(India)
(2013)
“Minimal
intelligence
across
phyla:
of
mice
and
men…
and
plants
(with
apologies
to
John
Steinbeck!)”.
Invited
presentation
at
Centre
for
Evolutionary
Biology,
University
of
Western
Australia
(Special
BONUS
Animal
Biology
Seminar).
Perth
(Australia).
(2012)
“Minimal
cognition
and
direct
perception
in
plants”
(invited
talk
at
Laboratoire
de
Psychologie
Cognitive,
CNRS).
Marsella
(France).
(2011)
“Adaptive
behavior
and
direct
perception:
ecological
lessons
from
plant
neurobiology”.
Smart
solutions
from
the
plant
kingdom:
beyond
the
animal
models’
workshop.
Florence
(Italy).
(2011)
“Systematic
behavior
and
the
varieties
of
(representational)
vehicles”.
Kazimierz
Naturalist
Workshop.
Kazimierz
Dolny
(Poland).
Editorial Service
• Editorial Board, New Ideas in Psychology (2005 - 2011)
• Editorial Board, Teorema (2011 - )
Ad Hoc Manuscript Referee
Acta Analytica, Adaptive Behavior, Anales de Psicología, Biology & Philosophy, British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Systems
Research, Communicative & Integrative Biology, Connection Science, Daimon,
Estudios de Psicología, History & Philosophy of Psychology, Journal of Theoretical and
Philosophical Psychology, Minds and Machines, New Ideas in Psychology, Perceptual
& Motor Skills: Perception, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Psychology, Plant
Signaling & Behavior, Psychological Reports, Societies, Synthese, Teorema.
SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS & AWARDS
• Fundación Séneca 2005 ‘Young Researchers Award of the Region of Murcia’
(Spain) (20.000€)
• Fulbright scholarship, University of California, San Diego (1998-1999)
• The Darwin Trust of Edinburgh scholarship, University of Glasgow (1997-1998)
• British Council scholarship, University of Glasgow (1995-1997)
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