Gui Sanches de Oliveira
guicogsci.bsky.social
Gui Sanches de Oliveira
@guicogsci.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ Univ. of Murcia 🇪🇸
Pragmatism, philosophy of science, embodied cognition, ecological psychology
https://webs.um.es/guilherme.sanches
My review of "Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science" by Mauricio Suárez (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been out for a while: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

the text is now also openly accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Reposted by Gui Sanches de Oliveira
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Just submitted a BBS commentary (w/ @edbaggs.bsky.social) on the paper "Let’s go WILD: Increasing Inclusivity in Theories of Developmental Psychology"

To make psychology more inclusive we need to confront the WEIRDness of our methods & metatheoretical commitments!

preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reposted by Gui Sanches de Oliveira
September 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Reposted by Gui Sanches de Oliveira
Latest paper co-authored with @guicogsci.bsky.social

We argue that behavior settings and cognitive institutions complement each other and that ecological psychology will profit from integrating cognitive institutions into its conceptual toolkit.

Open access in Topoi: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi
Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Reposted by Gui Sanches de Oliveira
@moritz-bammel.bsky.social and @guicogsci.bsky.social discuss the possibility of extending radical embodiment to human social collectives. They compare two established approaches: behavior settings theory and the extended cognition notion of cognitive institutions

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi
Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...
link.springer.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I'm happy to announce that this September I'll be joining the University of Murcia (Spain) on a Saavedra Fajardo grant for a 5-year research project followed by a tenure track professorship! Really looking forward to the project (more info soon) and to working with great friends there!
February 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM