Anthony Chemero

Anthony Chemero is a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, and a primary member of both the Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception and the Strange Tools Research Lab. Chemero's research is both philosophical and empirical, with a focus on nonlinear dynamical modeling, ecological psychology, complex systems, phenomenology, and social cognition. He is the author of more than 100 articles and the books Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (2009, MIT Press) , Phenomenology: An introduction (2015/2023, Polity; with Stephan Käufer ), and Intertwined Creatures (2026, Columbia). His first book was a finalist for the Lakatos Prize for Philosophy of Science. He has recently received the University Distinguished Research Award, the Latino Faculty Association Excellence in Research Award, and the Rieveschl Award for Scholarly Achievement at UC. Chemero received his Ph.D. in philosophy and cognitive science from Indiana University in 1999. From then until 2012, he taught at Franklin & Marshall College (F&M), where he was Professor of Psychology. He is currently Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. In the Fall of 2026, Chemero will become Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Publications

Books Chemero, A. (2009). Radical embodied cognitive science. MIT Press. Kaufer, Stephan and A. Chemero. (2015) Phenomenology: An Introduction 2nd ed., Wiley Chemero, A. (2026). Intertwined creatures: The embodied cognitive science of self and other. Columbia University Press.

Articles and chapters Chemero, A. (2018). An outline of a theory of affordances. In How Shall Affordances Be Refined? (pp. 181-195). Routledge. Chemero, A., & Silberstein, M. (2008). After the philosophy of mind: Replacing scholasticism with science. Philosophy of science, 75(1), 1-27. Anderson, M. L., Richardson, M. J., & Chemero, A. (2012). Eroding the boundaries of cognition: Implications of embodiment 1. Topics in cognitive science, 4(4), 717-730. Dotov, D. G., Nie, L., & Chemero, A. (2010). A demonstration of the transition from ready-to-hand to unready-to-hand. PloS one, 5(3), e9433. Van Der Schyff, D., Schiavio, A., Walton, A., Velardo, V., & Chemero, A. (2018). Musical creativity and the embodied mind: Exploring the possibilities of 4E cognition and dynamical systems theory. Music & science, 1, 2059204318792319. Chemero, A. (2000). Anti-representationalism and the dynamical stance. Philosophy of Science, 67(4), 625-647. Baggs, E., & Chemero, A. (2021). Radical embodiment in two directions. Synthese, 198(Suppl 9), 2175-2190. Walton, A. E., Richardson, M. J., Langland-Hassan, P., & Chemero, A. (2015). Improvisation and the self-organization of multiple musical bodies. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 313. Gastelum-Vargas, M., Chemero, A., & Raja, V. (2024). Places for reasoning. Philosophical Transactions B, 379(1910), 20230294. Ross, W., Glăveanu, V., & Chemero, A. (2024). The Illusion of Freedom. Constraints in Creativity, 13, 166. Wilkinson, T., & Chemero, A. (2024). Affordances, phenomenology, pragmatism and the myth of the given. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 1-17.