Monthly Archive Browsing Month: June 2009

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artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, distributed cognition, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots, situated cognition, the "hard" problem, Turing

The A.I. Report

Forbes features a symposium on A.I: it’s past, present and future. The editor writes: Can machines think? In 1950, Alan Turing, considered by some to be the father of modern computing, published a paper in which he proposed that, “If, during text-based conversation, a machine is indistinguishable from a human, then it could be said…

being and time, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Descartes, Heidegger, phenomenology, ryle, simon critchley

Being Heidegger

Simon Critchley has the first of an eight-part series of blog postings on Heidegger’s Being and Time. Will he discuss the influence Heidegger has had on non-Cartesian cognitive science? We will see. Unlikely as it sounds, Gilbert Ryle’s critical notice (Mind XXXVIII 1929, 355-370) warmly welcomed Sein und Zeit despite the inherent difficulties of the work…

austrian economics, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Edelman, Enacted, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, functionalism, Fuster, intentionality, leslie marsh, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, spontanous orders, the "hard" problem, the sensory order

Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

Call for papers Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology Leslie Marsh, Volume Editor Advances in Austrian Economics Hayek’s philosophical psychology as set out in his The Sensory Order (1952) has, for the most part, been a neglected work. Social theory, Hayek’s traditional disciplinary constituency, has recently begun to take note and examine its place in the complete Hayek corpus. Despite being…

Adams & Aizawa, Adams and Aizawa, Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive systems, consciousness, Embedded, embodiment, extended mind, journal of mind and behavior, Justin Fisher, memory, metaphysics, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

The Bounds of Cognition

Once again I want to bring your attention to the superb Critical Notice by Justin Fisher in the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior on Adams’ and Aizawa’s The Bounds of Cognition.

british idealism, byron kaldis, category error, corey abel, creationist science, elizabeth corey, experience and its modes, hermeneutics, idealism, ignoratio elenchi, intelligent design, leslie marsh, liberalism, michael oakeshott, modality, oakeshott, podoksik, political philosophy, politics, science, science wars, sociology, stephen jay gould, timothy fuller, wittgenstein

Oakeshott on Religion, Science and Politics

The recent Zygon symposium on Oakeshott on religion, science and politics is now available as a free download. Click here and scroll down to the REFLECTING ON MICHAEL OAKESHOTT section.