Here’s an interesting article entitled “Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere“
Habermas and the Internet
December 23, 2009 Comments Off Short URL Delicious, DEMOCRACY, Digg, epistemology, google, Habermas, networks, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, politics, social connectionism, social epistemology, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, Technorati
The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics
A new book by Ana Cordeiro dos Santos has come to my attention. Aside from the title which caught my eye – The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics – what recommends checking the book out is that Ana’s pedigree is notable – her PhD was supervised by Uskali Mäki and Jack Vromen, both top-draw minds – the former kindly contributing to an early issue of EPISTEME. Economics is a growth area from the perspective of social epistemology – and rightly so.
December 21, 2009 Comments Off Short URL Ana Cordeiro dos Santos, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, computer simulations, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, episteme, epistemology, Experimental Economics, Jack Vromen, philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, Uskali Mäki
Pat Churchland on Mind and Brain
Pat Churchland interviewed by Anthony Grayling for the BBC World Service. Churchland will be speaking in the Fall of 2010 at the NEI.

December 18, 2009 Comments Off Short URL anthony grayling, brain, brain science, Eliminative Materialism, folk psychology, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, new england institute, patricia churchland, philosophy of mind, philosophy on the radio, psychology, qualia
Alvin Goldman Symposium
Look out for what might be best considered the results from a symposium on Alvin Goldman in his distinctive guise as epistemologist – distinctive in the sense that he’s been at the heart of “analytical” epistemology for the past 40+ years and has recently lead the charge to make social epistemology acceptable to analytical epistemologists. If that’s not achievement enough then add into the mix his interest in philosophy of mind/cognitive science. Last, but by no means least, he’s the esteemed editor of EPISTEME. So check out:
December 14, 2009 Comments Off Short URL alvin goldman, episteme, epistemology, mind reading, mirror neurons, relativism, Reliabilism, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
December 11, 2009 Comments Off Short URL experience and its modes, oakeshott
Hayek in Mind
Here is an interview with the editors of Advances in Austrian Economics.
December 10, 2009 Comments Off Short URL advances in austrian econmics, behaviorism, brain, brain science, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, dualism, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, frame problem, frank rosenblatt, gerald edelman, hayek, joaquin fuster, John Searle, knowing how knowing that, psychology, qualia, roger penrose, steve horwitz, stigmergic, stigmergy, the "hard" problem, the sensory order
Closer to Truth: Consciousness
I’m pleased to have discovered a superb website that accompanies the PBS series Closer to Truth.
The definitive series on the latest advances in brain, mind, free will, personal identity, alien intelligence, parapsychology, afterlife, and brain-mind critical thinking.
Interviewer Robert Lawrence Kuhn does a super job of guiding the discussion for a lay audience and pretty much picks up where Brian Magee left off some 20 years ago in a series of programes for the BBC (and, I think, Channel 4). The interest here is on the selection of programs devoted to consciousness:
Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
What’s the Essence of Consciousness?
What’s the Meaning of Consciousness?
Is Consciousness Fundamental?
Is Consciousness Irreducible?
Is Consciousness an Ultimate Fact?
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
Why a Mind-Body Problem?
Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
What are Brains?
How are Brains Structured?
What do Brains Do?
How do Brains Function?
How do Human Brains Work?
How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
Can Brain Explain Mind?
How are Brains Conscious?
What Makes Brains Conscious?
How Brain Scientists Think about Consciousness
Among the luminaries interviewed include David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Hubert Dreyfus, Kristof Koch, Colin McGinn, Alva Noë, Roger Penrose, and John Searle and others besides. Here is the link to the video archive.
December 10, 2009 Comments Off Short URL Alva Noë, artificial intelligence, brain, brain science, brian magee, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, Dennett, Descartes, distributed cognition, Embedded, embodiment, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, hubert dreyfus, intentionality, John Searle, Kristof Koch, mirror neurons, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, Robert Lawrence Kuh, roger penrose, the "hard" problem
The Extended Mind Revisited
Here’s a rare treat to hear David Chalmers on the extended mind – typically, it’s been his co-author Andy Clark who has been exploring this idea in great detail. Here is their original paper; stay tuned for Rob Rupert’s review of Andy’s Supersizing the Mind to appear in the Journal of Mind and Behavior (as Chalmers says in his talk, he wrote the Forward to “Supersizing”).
December 8, 2009 Comments Off Short URL Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain damage, brain science, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, journal of mind and behavior, metaphysics, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, personal identity, philosophy of mind, robert rupert, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind, the "hard" problem
Rethinking A.I.
Essentially, we want to rewind to 30 years ago and revisit some ideas that had gotten frozen,” he says, adding that the new group hopes to correct “fundamental mistakes” made in AI research over the years.
December 7, 2009 Comments Off Short URL artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, computational intelligence, concept of mind, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Dalrymple, Ed Boyden, Herbert Simon, MIT, Neil Gershenfeld, Newton Howard, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, steven pinker, Turing, turing test
Swarm
Swarm grandee Guy Theraulaz presents a lecture on Biological Principles of Swarm Intelligence.
Other salient talks available on this site include:
Evolutionary Algorithms by Adam Prügel-Bennett
Dance evolution by Jeff Balogh, Gregg Dubbin, Michael Do
Science, Technology, and Applications of Swarm Robotics by Dario Floreano
The Mathematics of Emergence and Flocking by Stephen Smale
Fuzzy Logic by Michael Berthold
Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization in Partitional Clustering by Thiemo Krink
Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks by Mark Newman
Information Transfer in Moving Animal Groups by David J. T. Sumpter
December 7, 2009 Comments Off Short URL aggregation, ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, Guy Theraulaz, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, wasps
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Seeing What You Mean
February 4, 2012
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Knowledge Has Always Been Networked
February 3, 2012
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Behaviourism vs. Phenomenology
February 2, 2012
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The metaepistemology of knowing-how
January 31, 2012
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The New Theories of Moral Sentiments
January 30, 2012
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Nature, nurture and liberal values
January 30, 2012
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Andy Clark – “Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?”
January 29, 2012
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The neuroscience of happiness
January 28, 2012
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Patricia Churchland
January 27, 2012
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Enaction and Dance
January 25, 2012
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