The “4th International Conference on Philosophy of the Mind: 4Es Approach to the Mind and the Brain” ended last March 8, which brought together around 90 researchers from all over the world at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences (FFCS). In total, 115 registered participants were gathered, specialized in the philosophical idea that the mental aspects of the human being must be understood, not as realized only in the brain, but also considering the role of the body and the environment for this realization. Specialists from 20 different countries attended the event: Italy, United States, France, Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Czech Republic, England, Austria, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Australia, Russia, Denmark, Bulgaria and India.

After another 3 previous editions, also in Braga (with the participation of internationally renowned philosophers such as Thomas Metzinger, Tim Crane, William Child or David Papineau), this fourth edition brought to FFCS-UCP some of the most influential philosophers of mind today, such as the philosopher Shaun Gallagher from the University of Memphis (United States of America), the philosopher emeritus Peter Gärdenfors from the University of Lund (Sweden), the linguist Dirk Geeraerts from the University of Leuven (Belgium), the researcher in neurodevelopment Adriana Sampaio from the University do Minho (Portugal) and one of the most influential neuroscientists today, Karl Friston from the University of London (England).

The Conference was divided into 3 days of intense discussion, focused on themes related to approaches that assume that our mind – in general – is determined by 4 fundamental characteristics: it is embodied in relation to our senses and in relation to reality physical; it is inserted in the social and cultural context (embedded); it is enactive, through the subject's active participation in the environment; and is extended (extended) through tools, gadgets, technology, other objects, etc.

The purpose of the Conference was to discuss these hypotheses (intersections, divergences, new paths) through the perspective of the Philosophy of Mind, but also Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences, Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence.

The Organizing Committee of the Conference included several members of the Center for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH) of UCP-Braga, led by Steven Gouveia (President of the Organizing Committee and CEFH researcher) and by Tânia Oliveira (Member of the Organizing Committee and the CEFH Science Manager), having benefited from the collaboration of researchers from different areas of the FFCS-UCP (among employees and students of the undergraduate courses in Psychology, Communication Sciences and Philosophy), showing that multidisciplinary collaboration can be achieved even with the difficulties it raises.

Conference materials can be found on the official website of the event. The scientific event aroused a lot of enthusiasm among its participants and the desire to return soon, which is why the CEFH is considering holding a new edition in the near future.