EPISTEME: Dartmouth 2008
Details of the fifth annual EPISTEME conference are now available here.
Monthly Archive Browsing Month: August 2007
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EPISTEME: website revamp
The website for EPISTEME: Journal of Social Epistemology has been revamped. There are still a few things that need to be tweaked and updated. Please sign up for EPISTEME‘s list serv to receive contents alerts, CFP announcements, conference news and other social epistemology news.
Stigmergic Epistemology, Stigmergic Cognition
Final pre-press version of this paper is now available. Stigmergy
Susan Hurley
I was saddened to learn of the death of Susan Hurley today. Here is Alexander Bird’s announcement: I am very sorry to inform you of the death last night of Professor Susan Hurley. Susan had been suffering from cancer for some time and faced her illness with remarkable dignity. She continued to work until very…
How the body shapes the mind
Some thoughts on Shaun Gallagher’s How the Body Shapes the Mind, Oxford University Press What’s the ugliest Part of your body? What’s the ugliest Part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it’s your MIND… I think it’s your mind (Frank Zappa, 1968) Shaun Gallagher marshals…
Has liberty a place in Hobbes’ philosophy?
In memory of Paul Hirst (Paul was the only member in the School of Politics and Sociology that “got it”. He never allowed his own ideological predelictions to colour his approach to students’ work – he relished giving a fair and insightful account of positions he didn’t hold to, which I noticed confused students who were there…
Perspectives on Social Cognition: Contents
Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research – Perspectives on Social Cognition Some papers are now available as pre-press versions. 1. Introduction to Perspectives on Social Cognition – Leslie Marsh & Christian Onof 2. Functionalism and mental boundaries – Lawrence Shapiro 3. Consciousness and the social mind – Philip Robbins 4. Social relationships and groups: New…
Some other works-in-progress
I have good drafts of four papers that I’ll post as and when I’ve polished them up: 1. Social organicism in the political philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet Now available here. Abstract: This paper is an attempt to retrieve one part of Bosanquet’s political philosophy, the positive part which I term his “Social Organicism”. The most…
manwithoutqualities 