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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…

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…