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Professor
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail ingar.brinckfil.luse
Phone +46 46 222 08 97
Mobile +46 70 920 81 25
Room LUX:B522
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I'm interested in embodied and situated cognition and communication from a philosophical and psychological perspective. Present work concerns social robots and HRI, being in dialogue with materials, improvisation, situated ethics and care, emotion-perception-motor cognition, 4E aesthetics, development, social cognition, cooperation, joint attention, intersubjectivity, engagement. Advisor of PhD diss in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, philosophy of religion. Interdisciplinary research group CogComLab. Member of Cognitive Modeling Group. Member of Management team of WASP-HS. Affiliated to Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. https://www.lucs.lu.se/lucs-robotics-group http://www.institutnicod.org/ https://wasp-hs.org/ Teaching philosophy since 1989.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- CogComlab (research leader)
- Cognitive modeling
- Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (European Commission)
- The philosophy and practice of improvisation (NOS-H)
- Matters of Art and Practice: In Dialogue with Things (RJ) (research leader)
- Situated and Distributed Cognition: The Dependence of Thought Content on Body and Environment (HSFR) (research leader)
- Self-Conciousness and Self-Awareness (STINT) (research leader)
- Social robots in human environments
- Understanding rules: Cognitive and noncognitive models of social cognition (ESF/VR) (research leader)
- To point and talk: How language meets the world (VR) (research leader)
- Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (RJ)
- Cognition in context (VR Swe Research Links) (research leader)
- Instrumental and normative expectations in a social robot (research leader)
Books (2)
- Brinck, I. (1997). The indexical 'I': The first person in thought and language. Synthese Library, 265. Springer. Dissertation.
- Brinck, I. (1997). The indexical 'I': The first person in thought and language. Synthese Library, 265. Springer.
Editorships (1)
Articles (26)
- Brinck, I. & Balkenius, C. (2020). Mutual Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction : A Deflationary Account. Philosophy & Technology, 33, 53-70. Springer.
- Brinck, I. & Reddy, V. (2020). Dialogue in the making : Emotional engagement with materials. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 19, 23-45. Springer.
- Brinck, I. (2018). Empathy, engagement, entrainment : The interaction dynamics of aesthetic experience. Cognitive Processing, 19, 201-213. Springer.
- Brinck, I. & Kirkeby-Hinrup, A. (2017). Change blindness in higher-order thought : Misrepresentation or good enough?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 24, 50-73. Imprint Academic.
- Brinck, I. (2015). Understanding social norms and constitutive rules : Perspectives from developmental psychology and philosophy. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 14, 699-718. Springer.
- Brinck, I. (2014). Developing an understanding of social norms and games : Emotional engagement, nonverbal agreement, and conversation. Theory & Psychology, 24, 737-754. SAGE Publications.
- Falck, A., Brinck, I. & Lindgren, M. (2014). Interest contagion in violation-of-expectation-based false-belief tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Brinck, I. & Liljenfors, R. (2013). Reply to commentaries. Infant and Child Development, 22, 111-117. John Wiley & Sons Inc..
- Brinck, I. & Liljenfors, R. (2013). The developmental origin of metacognition. Infant and Child Development, 22, 85-101. John Wiley & Sons Inc..
- Arrhenius, G., Brinck, I., Glüer-Pagin, K., Halldenius, L., Maurin, A. S., Tersman, F. & Wikforss, A. (2011). To the editor of Theoria. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 77. Thales.
- Brinck, I. (2007). Situated cognition, dynamic systems and art. Janus Head, 9, 407-431. Trivium Publ., Amherst Ny.
- Jönsson, M. & Brinck, I. (2005). Compositionality and other issues in the philosophy of mind and language. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 71, 294-308. Thales.
- Maurin, A. S. & Brinck, I. (2005). Revisionary metaphysics : An interview with D. M. Armstrong. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 71, 3-19. Thales.
- Maurin, A.-S. & Brinck, I. (2005). Realistic metaphysics - An Interview with D. M. Armstrong. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 71. Thales.
- Brinck, I. (2004). Joint attention, triangulation and radical interpretation: A problem and its solution. Dialectica, 58, 179-205. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Brinck, I. (2004). The pragmatics of imperative and declarative pointing. Cognitive Science Quarterly, 3, 429-446.
- Brinck, I. (2003). The objects of attention: Causes and targets. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 287-287. Cambridge University Press.
- Brinck, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Co-operation and communication in apes and humans. Mind & Language, 18, 484-501. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Brinck, I. (2001). Attention and the Evolution of Intentional Communication. Pragmatics & Cognition, 9, 255-272. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Brinck, I. (2000). Om ickebegreppsligt innehåll hos perceptuella tillstånd. Filosofisk tidskrift, 21, 24-32. Thales.
- Brinck, I. (1999). Attention and tool-use in the evolution of language. Spinning Ideas- Electronic Essays Dedicated to Peter Gärdenfors on his fiftieth Birthday, 1-20.
- Brinck, I. (1999). Nonconceptual content and the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 760-761. Cambridge University Press.
- Brinck, I. (1999). Procedures and Strategies: Context-Dependence in Creativity. Philosophica, 64, 33-47. Philosophica, Ghent.
- Brinck, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (1999). Representation and Self-Awareness in Intentional Agents. Synthese, 118, 89-104. Springer.
- Brinck, I. (1998). Self-Identification and Self-Reference. Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy. Special Issue on the Philosophy of Gareth Evans., 1-15.
- Brinck, I. (1995). Indexikal kunskap och social mening: Om ordet 'jag'. Filosofisk tidskrift, 16, 128-137. Thales.
Book chapters (20)
- Brinck, I. (2021). What will the future city need from us to thrive? : Technology's impact on our cities. In Grettve, J. (Ed.) REopening of a city : 33 voices on how to shape a new urban life within empty spaces (pp. 154-157). Jenny Grettve Studio.
- Brinck, I., Reddy, V. & Zahavi, D. (2017). The Primacy of the "We"?. In Durch, C., Fuchs, T. & Tewes, C. (Eds.) Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture : Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World (pp. 131-147). MIT Press.
- Brinck, I., Balkenius, C. & Johansson, B. (2016). Making Place for Social Norms in the Design of Human-Robot Interaction. In Seibt, J., Nørskov, M. & Schack Andersen, S. (Eds.) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, What Social Robots Can and Should Do : Proceedings of RoboPhilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016 (pp. 303-312), 290. IOS Press.
- Brinck, I. (2015). Investigating the development of creativity : The Sahlin hypothesis. In Persson, J., Hermerén, G. & Sjöstrand, E. (Eds.) Against boredom : 17 essays : on ignorance, values, creativity, metaphysics, decision-making, truth, preference, art, processes, Ramsey, ethics, rationality, validity, human ills, science and eternal life : to Nils-Eric Sahlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday (pp. 7-23). Fri tanke förlag.
- Brinck, I., Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2014). Why metaphysicians do not explain. In Reboul, A. (Ed.) Mind, Values and Metaphysics (pp. 5-19). Springer.
- Hermerén, G., Brinck, I., Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2014). Value uncertainty and value instability in decision-making. In Dutant, J., Fassio, D. & Meylan, A. (Eds.) Liber Amicorum Pascal Engel (pp. 100-110). University of Geneva.
- Gärdenfors, P., Brinck, I. & Osvath, M. (2012). The tripod effect : Evolutionary perspectives on cooperation, cognition and communication. In Stjernfeldt, F., Deacon, T. & Schilhab, T. (Eds.) Biosemiotics, New perspectives on the symbolic species (pp. 193-224), 6. Springer.
- Brinck, I., Hermerén, G., Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2011). Why metaphysicians do not explain. In Reboul, A. (Ed.) Philosophical papers dedicated to Kevin Mulligan. Université de Genève, Faculté des Lettres.
- Brinck, I., Håkansson, S., Höög, V., Ljungqvist, M. & Ohlsson, A. (2010). Från jämställdhetspolicy till genuscertifiering : Lunds universitets jämställdhetsarbete utvärderat ur ett HT-perspektiv. In Lövcrona, I., Agrell, C. & Widén, K. (Eds.) AKKA III: Ledarutvecklingsprogram för kvinnor och män vid Lunds universitet 2008-2009 : Erfarenheter av ett genusintegrerat ledarskapsprogram (pp. 31-48). Lund University (Media-Tryck).
- Brinck, I. & Michanek, J. (2009). Kreativitet och nyföretagande. In Löwegren, M. & Landström, H. (Eds.) Entreprenörskap och företagsetablering (pp. 101-130). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Brinck, I. (2008). From similarity to uniqueness: Method and theory in comparative psychology. In Röska-Hardy, L. S. & Neumann-Held, E. M. (Eds.) Learning from Animals? Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness. Psychology Press.
- Brinck, I. (2008). The role of intersubjectivity in intentional communication. In Racine, T., Zlatev, J., Sinha, C. & Itkonen, E. (Eds.) The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Zlatev, J., Brinck, I. & Andrén, M. (2008). Stages in the development of perceptual intersubjectivity. In Morganti, F., Carassa, A. & Riva, G. (Eds.) Enacting Intersubjectivity: A Cognitive and Social Perspective of the Study of Interaction. IOS Press.
- Brinck, I. (2005). Om riskkommunikation: kartor, klyftor och mål. In Brinck, I. (Ed.) Risk och det levande mänskliga (pp. 45-78). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Brinck, I. (2003). Att se, skapa och förstå konst. In Eriksson, Y. & Göthlund, A. (Eds.) Från modernism till samtidskonst. Svenska kvinnliga konstnärer (pp. 155-172). Bokförlaget Signum.
- Brinck, I. (2003). Evaluation and testing in creativity. In Rojszczak, A., Cachro, J. & Kurczewski, G. (Eds.) Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science. Selected contributed papers from the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, (pp. 331-344), 320. Springer.
- Brinck, I. (2002). Världen om 30 år? Ett globalt perspektiv. In Loft, M. & Ramdell, B. (Eds.) Next? Framtidens produkter och tjänster (pp. 32-42). Stiftelsen Svensk Industridesign och Form/Design Center, Malmö.
- Brinck, I. (1997). The Gist of Creativity. In Andersson, Å. E. & Sahlin, N.-E. (Eds.) The Complexity of Creativity (pp. 5-16). Springer.
- Lindström, S. & Brinck, I. (1993). Artificiell intelligens - tankar utan innehåll?. In Andersson, Å. E. & Sahlin, N.-E. (Eds.) Huvudinnehåll. Tolv filosofiska uppsatser (pp. 121-146). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Brinck, I. (1992). Metaphor, similarity and semantics fields. In Emt, J. & Hermerén, G. (Eds.) Understanding the Arts (pp. 195-214). Lund University Press.
Conference contributions (22)
- Brinck, I. (2023). Social Robots for Social Institutions : Scaling Up and Cutting Back on Cognition. In Hakli, R., Mäkelä, P. & Seibt, J. (Eds.) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Social Robots in Social Institutions : Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022 (pp. 615-620), 366. IOS Press.
- Fantasia, V., Brinck, I. & Balkenius, C. (2022). Making sense with social robots : Extending the landscape of investigation in HRI. AIC 2022 Proceedings : 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition. CEUR-WS.
- Brinck, I., Heco, L., Sikström, K., Wandsleb, V., Johansson, B. & Balkenius, C. (2020). Humans Perform Social Movements in Response to Social Robot Movements : Motor Intention in Human-Robot Interaction. 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Brinck, I. & Balkenius, C. (2019). Recognition in Human–Robot Interaction : The gateway to engagement. 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 31-36. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Brinck, I. (2018). Joint improvisation in the arts practices : Entrainment, engagement and expert skill. In Penny, S. & Donahey, K. (Eds.) Proceedings from A Body of Knowledge : Embodied Cognition and the Arts conference 8-10 Dec 2016 (pp. 1-19). eScholarship University of California.
- Brinck, I. (2017). Minimal approaches to joint action.
- Brinck, I. (2014). Systems for Theory-Of-Mind : Taking the Second-Person Perspective.
- Brinck, I. (2010). Contexts of Language Diversity. Evolution of Language, Proceedings, 373-374. World Scientific Publishing.
- Brinck, I. & Liljenfors, R. (2009). Metacognitive development in early infancy. In Carazza, A., Morganti, F. & Riva, G. (Eds.) Enacting Intersubjectivity: Paving the way for a Dialogue between Cognitive Science, Social Cognition and Neuroscience (pp. 17-18). IPSP, Larioprint.
- Brinck, I. (2005). Avoiding the prisoner's dilemma? Reply to Hurley. In Origgi, G. & Sperber, D. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2005). Grasping social intentions. Comment on Jacob & Jeannerod. In Origgi, G. & Sperber, D. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2005). Joint attention and simulation. On Susan Hurley's shared circuits model. In Origgi, G. & Sperber, D. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2005). Simulating different kinds of action. Reply to Alvin Goldman. In Origgi, G. & Sperber, D. (Eds.) Interdisciples. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2005). Simulation of individual and social action. Reply to Hurley. In Origgi, G. & Sperber, D. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2004). Declarative pointing and theory of mind. Comment on Diesendruck. In Dominey, P., Origgi, G. & Reboule, A. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2004). From parity and complex imitation to pantomime. Comment on Arbib. In Dominey, P., Origgi, G. & Reboul, A. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2004). On the evolutionary origin of declarative pointing.
- Brinck, I. (2004). Towards an explanation of the evolution of language. Comment on Origgi & Sperber. In Dominey, P., Origgi, G. & Reboule, A. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2003). Objects of attention. Proceedings from the meeting of the ESPP 2003.
- Brinck, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Cooperation in apes and humans. In Chakraborti, C., Mandal, M. & Chatterjee, R. (Eds.) On Mind and Consciousness (pp. 365-376). Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.
- Brinck, I. (2000). Attention and the evolution of intentional communication. In Desalles, J.-L. & Ghadakpour, L. (Eds.) Proceedings from the Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 23-26). Ecole Nationale Supplementaire des Telecommunications (ENST), Paris.
- Brinck, I. (2000). From Intuition to Insight. In Sandström, S. (Eds.) Konferenser / Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien, The Intuitive Formation of Meaning : symposium held in Stockholm, April 20-21 1998 (pp. 39-52), 48. Almqvist & Wiksell.
Reports (1)
Working papers (3)
- Brinck, I. (2006). The origin and essence of linguistic reference. Lund Philosophy Preprints.
- Brinck, I. (2002). Bare demonstratives, joint attention and speakers' intentions. Lund Philosophy Preprints.
- Brinck, I. (2001). An outline of a theory of person-consciousness: Three kinds of self-awareness (2001-09-05). Lund Philosophy Preprints.
Reviews (4)
- Brinck, I. (2005). John Campbell : Reference and Consciousness. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 71, 266-276. Thales.
- Brinck, I. (2003). Review of Time and Memory: : Hoerl and McCormack. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 69, 249-253. Thales.
- Brinck, I. (2001). Review of Fred Dretske's Perception, Knowledge and Belief. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 67, 264-267. Thales.
- Brinck, I. (2000). On José Luis Bermudez' The Paradox of Self-Consciousness. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 66, 299-306. Thales.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (5)
- Brinck, I. (2010). Konstnärer är inte mer kreativa än andra. Tvärsnitt - om humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning, 10, 10-13. Vetenskapsrådet, Vetenskapsrådet.
- Brinck, I. (2000). Tankens frihet och biologins gränser. Lunds Universitet Meddelar. Lund University.
- Brinck, I. (1999). De nya sökarna - om new age som alternativ kunskapskälla. Framtider, 18, 34-38. Institutet för framtidsstudier, Institutet för framtidsstudier.
- Brinck, I. (1999). Med datorn spåras själens boning. Forskning & framsteg, 34, 16-19. Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg.
- Brinck, I. (1999). Zonen. Pequod, 63-69. Kulturföreningen Pequod.
Newspaper articles (2)
- Brinck, I. (2003). Handlar basens tyngd i kroppen om religion?. Helsingborgs Dagblad. Helsingborgs Dagblad.
- Brinck, I. (2002). Svart, vit eller kulturell cocktail? Om postkolonialismen. Helsingborgs Dagblad. Helsingborgs Dagblad.
Supervision at Lund University (8)
- Kirkeby-Hinrup, A. (2017). Empirical data in the philosophy of mind: free will, higher-order thought, and misrepresentation. Lund University Press. Dissertation.
- Falck, A. (2016). From interest contagion to perspective sharing : How social attention affects children's performance in false-belief tasks. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Lo Presti, P. (2015). Norms in Social Interaction : Semantic, Epistemic, and Dynamic. Dissertation.
- Svensson, T. (2013). The Balance of Meaning : Exploring the possibility of a recognition-transcendent meaning of religious and existentially important terms. Dissertation.
- Liljenfors, R. (2012). Altering the Point of You : Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Metacognition. Department of Psychology, Lund University. Dissertation.
- Osvath, M. (2010). Planning Primates - A search for episodic foresight. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 148. Dissertation.
- Levinsson, H. (2008). Autonomy and Metacognition : A Healthcare Perspective. Lund University (Media-Tryck). Dissertation.
- Jönsson, M. (2008). On Compositionality. Lund University (Media-Tryck). Dissertation.
Administrative
- Member, Forskningsnämnden, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
Other tasks and qualifications

Professor
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail ingar.brinckfil.luse
Phone +46 46 222 08 97
Mobile +46 70 920 81 25
Room LUX:B522
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30