Conspiracy Theories: Special Issue
Volume 4, issue 2, a special issue of EPISTEME is now available. Guest Editor: David Coady Contents and Abstracts available here.
Monthly Archive Browsing Month: December 2007
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Social Neuroscience review
Review by Roy Sugarman of Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior.
Two American Scientist Reviews
The Functionalist’s Dilemma George Lakoff reviews Ray Jackendorf’s Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure. Constructing Cognition Ethan Remmel reviews Katherine Nelson’s Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory.
Honderich vs McGinn II
Judging from the discussion on Leiter Reports the merits of McGinn’s review is sub judice. To be fair, there is a great deal of pap out there not all coming to the attention of first order minds like McGinn. In a footnote to the review, McGinn writes: The review that appears here is not as I originally wrote…
Wheeler: Reconstructing the Cognitive World
Here is is the uncorrected proof of my review of Mike Wheeler’s excellent book.
Honderich vs McGinn
A highly personalized and philosophical spat reaches the mainstream. I have some thoughts on the matter.
Plasticizing a “computer brain”
This from today’s Jerusalem Post. What’s particularly interesting is that were a biological computer a real possibility, this would vindicate the extended mind thesis. Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of TAU’s faculty of exact sciences and his research assistant Dr. Itay Baruchi were chosen for their innovative work in brain research and their success in creating a memory-…
Swarm References
Several months ago I floated the idea of compiling a database for all things “stigmergical”. I’m pleased to say that Simon Garnier has come up with a much better conceived idea (and database platform) for all things SWARM (which includes stigmergy). This is a timely project since the literature has of late witnessed an exponential increase in…
Humanitarian Aid for the Mind
Some seven months ago I highlighted the work of the Sabre Foundation. Once again I want to bring the work of this fine charity to your attention. Many charitable organizations attend to humanitarian needs associated with displacement and hunger. What is often lacking is the foresight to provide humanitarian aid for the mind: support for the…
Peter Lipton: Guardian/Telegraph Obituary
Following up on my earlier posting on hearing of Peter’s death, here is a nice personalized obituary in today’s Guardian. Here is the Telegraph obituary.
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