Monthly Archive Browsing Month: December 2009

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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

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…

alvin goldman, episteme, epistemology, mind reading, mirror neurons, relativism, Reliabilism, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology

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.…

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

Hayek in Mind

Here is an interview with the editors of Advances in Austrian Economics.

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

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…

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

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…

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

Rethinking A.I.

Press release from MIT. 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.

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

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…