February 2010 – manwithoutqualities

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February 28, 2010metaphysics, philosophical humor, philosophy, soul, woody allen

Metaphysics

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen (armchair philosopher) Thanks to Joel Parthemore for this gem.

February 28, 20103-D, Anders Persson, autopsy, csi, CT, economist, evidence, evidence and law, postmortem, Virtual Autopsy

This article from the Economist Dec 10th 2009 . PERFORMING a postmortem on a murder victim can take days, delaying any criminal investigation. Moreover, pathologists sometimes get only one chance to look for clues when dissecting a body. But Anders Persson, director of Linköping University’s centre for medical image science and visualisation in Sweden, hopes…

February 24, 2010anthony grayling, cognitive science, david livingstone smith, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, hobbes, human nature, new england institute, war, war and peace

War and Human Nature

Here is a recent lecture by NEI director David Livingstone Smith. Check out David’s press page.

February 24, 2010Andries Engelbrecht, artificial intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Jim Kennedy, networks, particle swarm optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Check out the Editorial (and of course the full issue) for the special issue on Particle Swarm Optimization from the new journal Swarm Intelligence. This issue is edited by two of the most prominent luminaries in the field – Andries Engelbrecht and Jim Kennedy. The former is the author of Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence; the latter,…

February 23, 2010David Barash, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, hamilton lecture, new england institute, peace studies, psychology, sociobiology, violence

Hamilton Lecture: David Barash

The New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies welcomes David Barash as this year’s Hamilton Lecture speaker.

February 20, 2010authority, bertrand russell, individual, reith lecture

Russell’s 1948 Reith Lecture

Authority and the Individual reith lectures

February 19, 2010bradley, collingwood, epistemology, experience and its modes, hegel, idealism, metaphysics, oakeshott, philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of mind, qualia, sellars, sensation

Old Reviews of Experience and its Modes

Here are two reviews of Experience and its Modes that I’ve only recently come across. The former is exceedingly warm; the latter, not surprisingly, very dismissive since it is reviewed in North America’s premier philosophy journal. I don’t mean to imply that The Journal of Philosophy is unduly critical – merely, that philosophy journals are,…

February 16, 2010cognition, cognitive science, optical illusions

Optical Illusions Revisited

Due to popular demand here are some more “moving” optical illusions I’ve found (here are the original ones I posted).

February 16, 2010Andy Clark, Anthony Morse, cognition, cognitive science, extended mind, externalism, Fred Adams, Ken Aizawa, philosophy of mind, richard menary

Extended Cognition Blog

I’ve just come across a blog dedicated to discussion of the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition. With contributors (for and against) of the order of Anthony Morse, Richard Menary, Andy Clark, Ken Aizawa and Fred Adams, this will hopefully develop into a lively forum and yet another way for theorists in this fertile and exciting niche to network.

February 16, 2010Axel Gelfert, episteme, epistemology, expertise, Fred Wilson, Frederick F. Schmitt, history, hume, Jörg Hardy, kant, Oliver R. Scholz, plato, Robert Pasnau, Saul Traiger, testimony, truth

The History of Social Epistemology

Here is the latest issue of EPISTEME.