Wonderful to see Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop win an LA Times Book Award. What passess as the literati these days needs to be exposed to a mind that is highly cultured, literary and that has unforced conceptual depth. See the Scientific American and the JASSS reviews from last year.
Seeing What You Mean
Knowledge Has Always Been Networked
Behaviourism vs. Phenomenology
The metaepistemology of knowing-how
The New Theories of Moral Sentiments
Nature, nurture and liberal values
Andy Clark – “Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?”
The neuroscience of happiness
Patricia Churchland
Enaction and Dance
