New Issue of Journal of Mind & Behavior

February 23, 2008

The new issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior is now available.

Contents page

Abstracts

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Naturalizing Religion

February 19, 2008

I notice that Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind have received a big grant for the “study of the cognitive science of religion” from the Templeton Foundation. Who’d have thought that the project of naturalizing religion would become so sexy – for reasons I won’t go into, this couldn’t have happened just 10 years ago when I was at Oxford. Writers engaged in this project that I have written on or, will soon be writing on, include Dennett, Rue and Flanagan.

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Free Content Access to EPISTEME

February 9, 2008

To promote Edinburgh University Press’s new content management system, the  Press is offering free access to EPISTEME until the end of March. See here.

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Minds and Societies

February 7, 2008

Social cognition is this year’s theme at the Summer Institute in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal.

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Anti-Individualism

February 3, 2008

Though I haven’t yet read Sandy Goldberg’s brand new book Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification I do look forward to doing so. I’d be interested to how Sandy’s work differs from Jessica Brown’s Anti-Individualism and Knowledge of a few years ago.

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The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence

February 2, 2008

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Oakeshott’s great essay “The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence” is now available in book form. For several years prior to the opening up of the LSE Oakeshott archives, this essay was being passed around in photocopy form, a copy of a copy etc . . . making it ever harder to read. Whatever else is in this collection, this essay alone justfies the cost of this volume: this is an essay that should be read by any serious student of Oakeshott’s work.      

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Dennett’s Breaking the Spell

February 1, 2008

Update: A digital version of this essay is now available from the Journal of Mind and Behavior website – click here or here.

Here is a final MS of my review essay on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell published in Journal of Mind and Behavior (Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Summer & Autumn 2006). 

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