4E-approaches to the mind refer to basic concepts like affordance and attunement, but the conceptual and metaphysical foundations of these notions still rest unclear. Despite its pivotal position and inflationary use in the 4E-explanatory paradigm, it is still left unanalyzed what “environment”, “context” or “situation” clearly mean, compared to the attention devoted to the other “E” notions. For example, how can natural settings be affording, involving and invitational? How is agency shaped by the situation and how does it contribute? How are contexts structured to separate the relevant from the irrelevant? These and other philosophical questions are addressed.

Theoretical computer science and mathematical logic could be seen as foundational for classical cognitivism. What about mathematical foundation for Enactivism and Situated Cognition? This conference aims to bring together attempts to mathematically approach cognition within the 4E- paradigm. One framework has been developed recently which reformulates information spaces in robotics as a model of sensorimotor interactions and studies how more interesting cognitive phenomena can in principle emerge from this. This paradigm connects naturally to other branches of mathematical modelling such as the proposed dynamical systems perspective.