Here is an interview with the editors of Advances in Austrian Economics.
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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.
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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.
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Alan Turing
The BBC has been running a series of articles on Turing.
For those of us who often discuss the conceptual aspects of liberty through the great works of social and political philosophy, we should stop and think about how our liberty was, to a great extent, preserved by Alan Turing.
According to Winston Churchill, Turing made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany.
His pivotal role in cracking intercepted messages helped the Allies to defeat the Nazis in several crucial battles.
A Profile and the Turing us philosophers/cognitive scientists know through his “Computing machinery and intelligence”, Mind 50: 433-460.
I PROPOSE to consider the question, ‘Can machines think? ‘This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms’ machine’ and’ think’. The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. If the meaning of the words ‘machine’ and ’think ‘ are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, ‘Can machines think?’ is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words.
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Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology
Another reminder: check out the special themed EPISTEME issue edited by Igor Douven.
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The Metaphysics of Mind
This past weekend I attended the Timothy Sprigge Memorial Conference (see link to obituary by Jane O’Grady who was in attendence). I met Sprigge in 1997 at the Bradley conference at Harris-Manchester College Oxford, a time when I was very interested in the idealists. Funny how philosophical changes come and go – Sprigge, ever the outsider, is now of interest to current philosophy of mind. Anyway, this conference brought together a very diverse group of theorists in the most congenial of environments and I was able to meet a few of my intellectual heroes.
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Leemon McHenry (California State University, Northridge)
Sprigge’s Ontology of Consciousness
Pierfrancesco Basile (University of Bern)
It must be true—but how can it be? Some Remarks on Panpsychism and Mental Composition
Alastair Hannay (University of Oslo)
The Space We Share: Phenomenology and Metaphysics
Jason Brown (New York University Medical Center)
What is a Mental State?
Galen Strawson (University of Reading)
Fundamental Singleness: How to Turn the 2nd Paralogism into a Valid Argument
Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)
Explaining Consciousness: From Emergentism to A Priori Physicalism
William Seager (University of Toronto)
Concessionary Dualism and Physicalism
Brian P. McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
Consciousness, Identity, and Explanation
Fred Adams (University of Delaware)
Consciousness: Why and Where?
Geoffrey Madell (University of Edinburgh)
Substance Dualism: You Know it Makes Sense
Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana)
How Consciousness Can Safely Emerge
David Cockburn (University of East Anglia)
Doubts About “Consciousness”
Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)
Locating the Conscious Mind
Howard Robinson (Central European University, Budapest)
Quality, Thought and Consciousness
Stephen Clark (University of Liverpool)
How to Become Unconscious
Eduard Marbach (University of Bern)
Is there a Metaphysics of Consciousness without a Phenomenology of Consciousness? Some thoughts derived from Husserl’s Philosophical Phenomenology
Brenda Almond (University of Hull)
Religious Consciousness: Revisiting the God of the Philosophers
Julian Kiverstein (University of Edinburgh)
The Metaphysics of Time Consciousness
James Giles (University of Guam)
The Metaphysics of Awareness in Taoist philosophy
Tim Crane (University College London)
Consciousness as Predicated of Human Beings
Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool)
Phenomenal Holism
Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin)
Consciousness for Four-Dimensionalists
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Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology
The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available – the theme is computer simulations – an topic that is seeing a great deal of growth.
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Complexity 101
Here are some nice distinctions drawn about complexity theory by someone coming to the subject with a fresh and curious mind.
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Geza Vermes: Death of a Great Scholar
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Kermit Ruffins: We Partyin’ Traditional Style!
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 13
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Mark Rowlands on the Extended Mind
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Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of thought experiments
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Social relationships and groups: New insights on embodied and distributed cognition
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Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of Experience
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 12
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Stigmergy and emergent behaviour
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The socially extended mind
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Consciousness and the social mind
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Science of Swarms
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Jazz as conversation
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Oakeshott on the Character of Religious Experience: Need There be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
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The Dynamically Extended Mind – A Minimal Modeling Case Study
