Olle Blomberg

Nationality: Sweden

Course: PhD

Cluster: Mind & Cognition

Start date: 2008

Supervisors: Andy Clark, Eric Laurier (Geography) & Richard Harper (Socio-Digital Systems, Microsoft Research, Cambridge)

Thesis topic

Perception, sensory imagination and situated cognition

Research interests

Philosophy of the cognitive and social sciences, philosophy of technology

Previous degrees

• 2006: Practical Philosophy MA, Linköping University, Sweden; thesis available here.
• 2005: Cognitive Science MSc, Linköping University, Sweden; thesis available here.
• 2003: Practical Philosophy BA, Linköping University, Sweden; thesis available here.

Conference presentations

• 'Cognition and grammatical investigations', ESPP conference 2009, August 27-30, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
• 'From Extended Cognition to Socio-technical Agency', SPT 2009: Converging Technologies, Changing Societies, July 7-10, University of
  Twente, the Netherlands.
• 'Is 'Cognition' in HMI Wrongheaded or Out of its Head?', Mind & Cognition Graduate Workshop, Edinburgh, May 11, 2009.
• ''Cognition' in HCI: Wrongheaded or Out of its Head?', Laboratory for Knowledge and Communication Engineering (K2LAB), Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, University of Stockholm, April 30, 2009.
• 'Do Socio-Technical Systems Cognise?' 2nd AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy, April 9, 2009.
• 'The Thick Concept Argument Against Non-Cognitivism and How to Avoid Its Conclusion', GAP.6: Philosophie - Grundlagen und Anwendungen, Berlin, Germany, September 11-14, 2006.
• 'The Use of Cognitive Ability Tests in Practice' (with Anna Ekström, Rikard Karlsson, Gustav Lymer, Anna Roos and Björn Sjöblom), 2nd Nordic Baltic Conference on Activity Theory and Sociocultural Research, Ronneby, Sweden, September 7-9, 2001.

Publications

• 'Do Socio-Technical Systems Cognise?', Proceedings of the 2nd AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy. Available here.
• 'Disentangling The Thick Concept Argument', Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8 (2007), no. 2, pp. 63-78. Available here.
• 'AIS and the Loss of Public Information' (with Margareta Lützhöft and James Nyce), Proceedings of COMPIT'05: 5th International EuroConference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries, Hamburg, Germany, May 8-11, 2005.
• 'Automating Driver Visual Behaviour Measurement' (with Trent Victor and Alexander Zelinsky), Proceedings of Vision in Vehicles 9, Brisbane, Australia, August 2001.

Teaching

• Tutor in Philosophy of Science, University of Edinburgh, spring 2009.
• Tutor in Technology and Ethics, Linköping University, Sweden, autumn 2003.

Previous work experience

Freelance journalist, technical writer, communication consultant, research assistant, lifter driver, hostel receptionist, newspaper distributor, agricultural worker, factory worker.