Monthly Archive Browsing Month: November 2009

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Momento’s Revenge

I’ve read just about everything by Andy Clark – as I’ve said several times before he is a superb stylist and is philosophy at its most lively. Some years back I read his paper Memento’s Revenge: Objections and Replies to the Extended Mind. I don’t recall having seen the film that Andy references in his paper;…

brain science, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, evolutionary psychology, ginger campbell, mirror neurons, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, science

Brain Science Podcast

I want to give a plug to the excellent resource that is the Brain Science Podcast website so passionately managed by Ginger Campbell. There is even an iPhone app now available though I haven’t used it yet.

cognition, cognitive ecology, David Bloor, episteme, epistemology, Martin Kusch, science wars, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociocognition, strong programme

Cognitive Ecology

The program for EPISTEME 2010 is firming up nicely. It’s great to see Martin Kusch finally involved with EPISTEME. Discussants at large include David Bloor – how ecumenical is that? In many ways social epistemology comes home – Edinburgh historically being a hotbed of the Strong Programme – and EPISTEME being published by Edinburgh University…

A Constitution of Many Minds, active perception, Adam Gopnik, alan sokal, philosophy, postmodern, social epistemology

Alan Sokal Interview

Here’s a TPM interview with Alan Sokal. As Sokal says, perhaps it is inevitable that whatever his technical achievements are, he will be remembered for the so-called “Sokal hoax.” The vitriol that this debate generated I think did philosophy a service to a degree – “Continental” and analytical philosophy – but the slanging match did…