Monthly Archive Browsing Month: August 2009

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The Elusive Oakeshott

Here is a characteristically lucid piece by Ken Minogue on Oakeshott’s supposed conservatism. It should be noted that conservatism as Oakeshott understood it, is an anathema to “conservatism” understood in the American context. I take the view that these the terms are not at all helpful and are, for the most part, vulgarized. Oakeshott was…

Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive systems, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, Embedded, embodiment, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Joel Krueger, Leonard Angel, Lynne Rudder Baker, mark rowlands, Matthew Day, mind reading, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of social science, religion, situated cognition, social cognition, social constructivism, sociology, teed rockwell, Zygon

The Extended Mind and Religious Thought

THE EXTENDED MIND AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT Zygon symposium (Volume 44 Issue 3 September 2009) is now available online. The lineup as follows: MINDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES: EXPLORING THE EXTENDED MIND (p 625-627) Leslie Marsh THE EXTENDED MIND (p 628-641) Mark Rowlands PERSONS AND THE EXTENDED-MIND THESIS (p 642-658) Lynne Rudder Baker MINDS, INTRINSIC PROPERTIES, AND MADHYAMAKA…

cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, colin klein, consciousness, distributed cognition, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, psychology, robert rupert, situated cognition, social cognition

Rob Rupert’s Cognitive Systems and The Extended Mind

Earlier this year I trailed Rob Rupert’s new book. I now want to give a plug to a workshop that is going to be held to discuss this eagerly awaited book. I’ve commissioned a Critical Review for The Journal of Mind and Behavior to be written by the very able Colin Klein.