Outonomy book is out!

I am very happy to announce the publication of Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual, edited by Arantza Etxeberria and myself. This book is the unified and integrated result of our the research project of the same title lead by myself and Leonardo Bich that finished over a year ago. The book gathers a rich, cross-disciplinary exploration of autonomy that moves beyond the classic, self-sufficient, abstract, rational…

http://xabier.barandiaran.net/2025/12/05/outonomy-book-is-out/

What Does It Mean for a Body (part) to Fail?

J.M.W. Turner, "Tintern Abbey" (1794) from Wikipedia Commons I just published a new paper: Barandiaran, X. E. (2025). Organizational Accounts of Malfunction: The Dual-Order Approach and the Normative Field Alternative. Biological Theory. Why does a heart attack count as a malfunction, but a volcanic eruption doesn’t? What makes one failure meaningful while the other is merely an outcome of physical laws?

http://xabier.barandiaran.net/2025/06/09/what-does-it-mean-for-a-body-part-to-fail/

Generative Midtentionality: How AI could change intentionality

Barandiaran, X. E., & Pérez-Verdugo, M. (2024). Generative midtended cognition and Artificial Intelligence. Thinging with thinging things (arXiv:2411.06812). arXiv. (the paper has been submitted and accepted for publication in Synthese, special issue "New directions in the extended mind") I really do think with my pen, because my headoften knows nothing about what my hand is writing…

http://xabier.barandiaran.net/2024/11/12/generative-midtentionality/

PhD studentship opportunity

If you want to do a PhD with me or within the Outagencies project I lead, we have just opened a PhD studentship grant application for a 4 year scholarship. Here is some relevant information: SUMMARY: Opportunity to join us at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind, and Society [ at the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastián) for a…

http://xabier.barandiaran.net/2024/10/31/phd-studentship-opportunity/