My research is interdisciplinary at the intersection of philosophy, psychology and linguistics/gesture studies and concerns foundational issues about cognition and communication from a philosophical, developmental, and evolutionary perspective. I conceive of cognition and communication as embodied and embedded dynamic processes within a larger ecological framework. Publications mainly in psychology, philosophy and cognitive science, centred along three parallel lines of research: (1) social cognition, cooperation, coordination, social norms, intersubjectivity, and joint action; (2) multimodal communication and verbal reference, indexicality, pointing, gaze, and joint attention; (3) creativity, situated meta-cognition and meta-attention, self- and other-awareness, improvisation, and expert skill.  On-going work on second-person engagement in infancy; Human-Robot Interaction; material engagement and aesthetic experience in the arts and crafts practices; joint improvisation; togetherness and the We; sensorimotor interaction, pre-reflective cognition, and dialogue; change-blindness.

Books (2)

• Brinck, I. (1997). The indexical 'I': The first person in thought and language. Synthese Library, 265. Kluwer. Dissertation.
• Brinck, I. (1997). The indexical 'I': The first person in thought and language. Synthese Library, 265. Kluwer.

Editorships (1)

• Brinck, I., Halldén, S., Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (2005). (Eds.) Risk och det levande mänskliga. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
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Articles (29)

• Brinck, I. & Reddy, V. (2019). Dialogue in the making : Emotional engagement with materials. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 1-23. Springer.
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• Brinck, I. (2018). Empathy, engagement, entrainment : The interaction dynamics of aesthetic experience. Cognitive Processing, 19, 201-213. Springer.
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• Brinck, I. & Balkenius, C. (2018). Mutual Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction : A Deflationary Account. Philosophy & Technology. Springer.
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• 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.
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• Brinck, I. (2015). Understanding social norms and constitutive rules: Perspectives from developmental psychology and philosophy. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 14, 699-718. Springer.
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• Brinck, I. (2014). Developing an understanding of social norms and games : Emotional engagement, nonverbal agreement, and conversation. Theory & Psychology, 24, 737-754. SAGE Publications.
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• Falck, A., Brinck, I. & Lindgren, M. (2014). Interest contagion in violation-of-expectation-based false-belief tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. Frontiers.
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• Brinck, I. & Liljenfors, R. (2013). Reply to commentaries. Infant and Child Development, 22, 111-117. John Wiley & Sons.
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• Brinck, I. & Liljenfors, R. (2013). The developmental origin of metacognition. Infant and Child Development, 22, 85-101. John Wiley & Sons.
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• Arrhenius, G., Brinck, I., Glüer-Pagin, K., Halldenius, L., Maurin, A. S., Tersman, F. & Wikforss, A. (2011). To the editor of Theoria. Theoria, 77. Thales.
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• Brinck, I. (2007). Situated cognition, dynamic systems and art. Janus Head, 9, 407-431. Trivium Publ., Amherst Ny.
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• Brinck, I. (2006). The origin and essence of linguistic reference. Lund Philosophy Preprints. Department of Philosophy, Lund University.
• Brinck, I. (2005). Review of Campbell: Reference and Consciousness. Theoria, 71, 266-276. Thales.
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• Jönsson, M. & Brinck, I. (2005). Compositionality and other issues in the philosophy of mind and language. Theoria, 71, 294-308. Thales.
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• Maurin, A. S. & Brinck, I. (2005). Revisionary metaphysics : An interview with D. M. Armstrong. Theoria, 71, 3-19. Thales.
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• Maurin, A.-S. & Brinck, I. (2005). Realistic metaphysics - An Interview with D. M. Armstrong. Theoria, 71. Thales.
• Brinck, I. (2004). Joint attention, triangulation and radical interpretation: A problem and its solution. Dialectica, 58, 179-205. Wiley-Blackwell.
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• Brinck, I. (2004). The pragmatics of imperative and declarative pointing. Cognitive Science Quarterly, 3, 429-446.
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• Brinck, I. (2003). Review of Time and Memory: Hoerl and McCormack. Theoria, 69, 249-253. Thales.
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• Brinck, I. (2003). The objects of attention: Causes and targets. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 287-287. Cambridge University Press.
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• Brinck, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Co-operation and communication in apes and humans. Mind & Language, 18, 484-501. Wiley-Blackwell.
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• Brinck, I. (2001). Attention and the Evolution of Intentional Communication. Pragmatics & Cognition, 9, 255-272. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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• 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.
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• Brinck, I. (1999). Nonconceptual content and the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 760-761. Cambridge University Press.
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• 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.
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• Brinck, I. (1995). Indexikal kunskap och social mening: Om ordet 'jag'. Filosofisk tidskrift, 16, 128-137. Thales.

Book chapters (20)

• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.) New perspectives on the symbolic species (pp. 193-224). 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.
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• Brinck, I., Håkansson, S., Höög, V., Ljungkvist, 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, Erfarenheter av ett genusintegrerat ledarskapsprogram (pp. 31-48). Lund University (Media-Tryck).
• 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).
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• 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.
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• 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). 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. Kluwer.
• 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). Kluwer.
• 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 (19)

• 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 Xplore.
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• 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.
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• Brinck, I. (2017). Minimal approaches to joint action.
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• Brinck, I. (2014). Systems for Theory-Of-Mind : Taking the Second-Person Perspective.
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• Brinck, I. (2010). Contexts of Language Diversity. Evolution of Language, Proceedings, 373-374. World Scientific.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Brinck, I. (2005). Simulating different kinds of action. Reply to Alvin Goldman. In Origgi, G. & Sperber, D. (Eds.) Interdisciples. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
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• Brinck, I. (2005). Simulation of individual and social action. Reply to Hurley. In Origgi, G. & Sperber, D. (Eds.) Interdisciplines. Institut Nicod, CNRS, Paris.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Brinck, I. (2004). On the evolutionary origin of declarative pointing.
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• 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.
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• Brinck, I. (2003). Objects of attention. Proceedings from the meeting of the ESPP 2003.
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• 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.) The Intuitive Formation of Meaning (pp. 39-52). Almqvist & Wiksell.

Reports (1)

• Brinck, I., Zlatev, J. & Andrén, M. (2006). An applied analysis of attentional intersubjectivity. Delivrables of Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use, 7. European Commission.
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Working papers (3)

• Brinck, I. (2006). The origin and essence of linguistic reference. Lund Philosophy Preprints.
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• Brinck, I. (2002). Bare demonstratives, joint attention and speakers' intentions. Lund Philosophy Preprints.
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• Brinck, I. (2001). An outline of a theory of person-consciousness: Three kinds of self-awareness (2001-09-05). Lund Philosophy Preprints.
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Reviews (2)

• Brinck, I. (2001). Review of Fred Dretske's Perception, Knowledge and Belief. Theoria, 67, 264-267. Thales.
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• Brinck, I. (2000). On José Luis Bermudez' The Paradox of Self-Consciousness. Theoria, 66, 299-306. Thales.
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Articles in specialist publications and popular press (5)

• Brinck, I. (2010). Konstnärer är inte mer kreativa än andra. Tvärsnitt, 10, 10-13. Vetenskapsrådet, Vetenskapsrådet.
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• Brinck, I. (2000). Tankens frihet och biologins gränser. Lunds Universitet Meddelar. Lunds universitet.
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• 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.
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• Falck, A. (2016). From interest contagion to perspective sharing : How social attention affects children's performance in false-belief tasks. Dissertation.
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• Lo Presti, P. (2015). Norms in Social Interaction : Semantic, Epistemic, and Dynamic. Dissertation.
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• Svensson, T. (2013). The Balance of Meaning : Exploring the possibility of a recognition-transcendent meaning of religious and existentially important terms. Dissertation.
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• Liljenfors, R. (2012). Altering the Point of You - Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Metacognition. Department of Psychology, Lund University. Dissertation.
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• 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.
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• Jönsson, M. (2008). On Compositionality. Lund University (Media-Tryck). Dissertation.
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