Second-person externalism: the atribution of personal states mediated by wearable computing tecnologies

• Grant number: 19/14234-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 19, 2019
• End date: December 18, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology
• Principal Investigator: Mariana Claudia Broens
• Grantee: Felipe Eleutério Pereira
• Supervisor: Diana Inés Pérez
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
• Associated to the scholarship: 18/06147-7 - Externalist approaches of the concept of person: analysis of the implications of ubiquitous computing in personhood, BP.IC

Abstract

The objective of this research project is to analyze the attribution of mental (or personal) states to others in the context of the "Second Person Externalism" (Gomila, 2001; Pérez, 2013) from second-person relationships mediated by wearable computing technologies. Thus, (1) we will analyze the concept of "person" proposed by Liñan et al., (2017), for whom the ability to become emotionally contagious causes human agents to consider one another as "one of theirs" and, consequently, as a person; (2) we will investigate possible consequences of the widespread use of wearable computing technologies in the processes of constitution of the personhood from an externalist perspective of person. (AU)