ECogS 2025

Welcome to the 2025 International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science, hosted by the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. This year’s keynotes will focus on the theme of Agency Across Scales: From Cells to Societies.

This meeting aims to gather an international group of theoreticians and experimentalists from cognitive science, psychology, developmental biology, artificial life, computer science, neuroscience, and philosophy to examine the state of the art in the phenomenon of agency and its manifestation across different scales, from cells to society. The focus will be on exploring shared organizational principles connecting diverse expressions of agency and the interaction between them. By drawing on strong theoretical foundations of cognitive agency at the individual human level, the goal is to investigate whether these insights can open new perspectives on smaller (e.g., cells) and larger living systems (e.g., ecologies), and vice versa. The outcomes of this inquiry can enhance our interacting with and shaping of biological regulation at all scales, with broad implications for health-giving interventions.

We are pleased to extend an invitation for contributions from all disciplines embracing the embodied approach. Although the focus of our keynotes is on the topic of agency across scales, we welcome submissions on all topics related to embodied cognitive science.

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