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Kate Nave is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and language sciences. Her research focuses on developing a realist account of autonomy and agency, uniquely grounded in the metabolic existence of living systems. She critically examines the machine concept of an organism in light of distinctive material instabilities. Nave holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, where her thesis was centered on the idea that living systems cannot survive solely through prediction error minimization. She has contributed to several significant publications exploring predictive processing and consciousness, including critiques of visual experience and discussions on interoception and feeling. Nave has received multiple academic grants and studentships, further supporting her research endeavors in philosophical inquiries related to cognition and the living systems' experiences.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh
Conducting research and developing projects related to philosophy and living systems.
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