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José Manuel Araya García

Researcher

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Philosophy of Cognitive Science; Predictive Processing; Self-modeling; Self-Control; Addiction; Philosophy of Emotion and Affective Sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Moral Psychology; Epistemology; Philosophy of science.

Educación

  •  Philosophy, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Cognitive Science, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2012
  •  Philosophy and cognitive science, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Reino Unido, 2017

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Investigador Part Time

    Universidad de Talca

    Talca, Chile

    2023 - A la fecha

Difusión y Transferencia


OUTREACH

2025. Participante del conversatorio "Cuidar el futuro: ética, inteligencia artificial y tecnologías de cuidado", Incuba, UAH, 21 Octubre.
2025. Columna para El Mostrador, “Envejecer con máquinas: IA y el cuidado de la demencia.”
2025. Columna para El Desconcierto, “El duelo duele y Chile envejece.”
2025. Participante en el conversatorio “Deathbots: el duelo y los algoritmos”, Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA), PUC, 9 Mayo.
2024. Columna para CIPER, “Los bots de la muerte: resurrección digital y el proceso del duelo.”
2023. Columna en El Mostrador, “El duelo prolongado, la pérdida de la democracia y la identidad de la República”.
2020. (invited Lecturer). Collective emotions (Emociones colectivas). Tertulia en Círculo, IFICC, Santiago de Chile, 12 Diciembre.
2020. Interview for Iniciativa Laicista (November 2020)


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Fellowship at the Center for Mind & Cognition

    RUHR-UNIVERSITAT BOCHUM

    Alemania, 2026

    Research at the at the Center for Mind & Cognition, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Episodic Memory and the Self: Philosophical Theory Formation The fellowship can either be realized in experimental neuroscience or in philosophical theory formation: In the former case the fellow is supposed to work with the method of fMRI investigating either aspects of memory or of self-consciousness. In the latter case, the fellow is supposed to contribute to the theory of the interaction between memory and the self: how is episodic memory recall shaped by the self-model? How and to which extent is the self constituted by episodic memory? The experimental fellowship is especially connected with the chair of Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher. The theoretical fellowship is especially connected with chair of Prof. A. Newen. Both principal investigators are closely interacting concerning this research area and the fellow will be integrated in a DFG-research unit “Constructing Scenarios of the Past”.


 

Article (9)

Affective modelling and valenced mixtures within a hierarchical Bayesian architecture
Grief and the ageing self-model
A pessimistic approach to griefbots: free-energy, affective scaffolds, and the ethics of human-griefbot interaction
Emotion against reason? Self-control conflict as self-modelling rivalry
The narrative self-model in schizophrenia: integrating predictive processing with phenomenological psychopathology
Grief as self-model updating
Stereotypes, Ingroup Emotions and the Inner Predictive Machinery of Testimony
Emotion and the predictive mind: Emotions as (almost) drives
Against the "non-sensory" view of affective valence

BookReview (1)

Computational neurophenomenology meets MUSE: a commentary on Şerife Tekin’s Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry.

BookSection (3)

El duelo como reconfiguración del modelo narrativo del yo
Regulation, not perception: emotion and predictive machinery
¿Es la valencia afectiva un ítem mental no-sensorial?
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Pablo Lopez-Silva

PROFESOR TITULAR

Psicología

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

VALPARAISO, Chile

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José Araya

Researcher

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

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Gabriela Arriagada

Profesora Asistente (doble nombramiento)

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile