Here is my introduction to the themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research. The full collection is now available here.
Cognitive Science Research: Extended Mind Themed Issue
July 13, 2010
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Adams and Aizawa, Alva Noë, Alzheimer's, Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, Embedded, Evan Thompson, Fred Adams, Georg Theiner, Matthew Barker, Nivedita Gangopadhyay, Supersizing the Mind, Zoe Drayson, active externalism, active perception, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, brain science, cognitive science, cognitive systems, cognitive systems research, colin allen, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, consciousness, cyborgs, dan weiskopf, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, duncan prichard, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, feedback, folk psychology, francesco varela, mark rowlands, metaphysics, philip robbins, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, robert goldstone, robert rupert, robert wilson, sandy goldberg, susan hurley | 
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John Haugeland
June 26, 2010As most will already know, John Haugeland passed away this week.
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Embodiment, Stigmergy, and Swarm Intelligence
May 7, 2010
Here is a chapter from a book by Michael Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (all of the Biological Computation Project, University of Alberta) that has just come my way and is entitled From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots. In fact, all the chapters in draft are freely available to be downloaded from the book’s dedicated webpage. This offer will cease on publication of the book – which will be VERY soon. There is also a nicely produced 15 minute mini-documentary on the publisher’s site featuring Dawson and Depuis (click the video tab).
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What is this thing called social epistemology?
April 10, 2010Check out two recent MSS by Alvin Goldman that addresses this question.
1. Why Social Epistemology Is Real Epistemology (to appear in D. Pritchard, A. Haddock, and A. Millar, eds., Social Epistemology, Oxford University Press). Goldman, the doyen of analytical social epistemology takes on the late Bill Alston.
2. Systems-Oriented Social Epistemology (to appear in T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne, eds., Oxford Studies in Epistemology). “Systems oriented SE is a flexible form of epistemological consequentialism that evaluates social epistemic systems in terms of their impact on epistemic outcomes.” Good grief – Hayek even gets a mention.
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From The Sensory Order to the Moral Order
April 6, 2010Check out Troy Camplin‘s just published article in NOMOI: Revista Digital sobre Epistemología, Teoría del Conocimiento y Ciencias Cognitivas No. 1 – Año 2010. (Scroll down to p. 3).
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Visualizing the internet: Akamai’s network traffic
April 5, 2010Check out Akamai‘s data visualizations for the internet traffic it handles. Though pretty cool seeing this in their Cambridge control room when I visited, I was told it was more for show than anything else. Check out their online vizualizations page. Also, do check out their EdgePlatform blurb, a superb example of distributed computing.
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Extended Mind – Extended Time
March 28, 2010Since we’ve been waiting for almost four years!!! for the publication of this collection of papers attached to The Extended Mind II conference held at The University of Hertfordshire in July of ’06, it’s arrival is going to be somewhat underwhelming on the grounds that: (a) most of the papers have been in circulation for quite a while, and (b) much good literature and more detailed statements by many of the participants have appeared, many addressing issues raised at the Hertfordshire conference. This kinda makes this book redundant. A shame really considering the calibre of the line-up.
Update: I’m told by someone in the know that some of the papers go back to 2003!
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Online Swarm Resource
March 17, 2010Check out swarm grandee Guy Theraulaz’ list of papers available online.
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Adventures among Ants
March 14, 2010
As some of you will know, I have posts on ants from time to time. The study of ants has a great deal of relevance to the computational intelligence community. I want to trail the forthcoming book by National Geographic photographer extraordinaire and entomologist Mark Moffett. See the book’s dedicated website.
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“Empiricalizing” Heidegger
March 10, 2010Tony Chemero has kindly sent me these links to a paper he, Dobromir Dotov and Lin Nie have just had published. The first link is to the full paper entitled “A Demonstration of the Transition from Ready-to-Hand to Unready-to-Hand.” The second link is to a popularized version of the aforementioned paper entitled “Your Computer Really Is a Part of You.” Also look out for Tony’s recently published book Radical Embodied Cognitive Science which will soon be reviewed in The Journal of Mind and Behavior by Rick Dale. I for one thoroughly enjoyed the book having read the proofs.
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