May 2008 – manwithoutqualities

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May 25, 2008alvin goldman, criminal verdicts, Dartmouth, episteme, epistemology, forensic science, forensics, forthcoming, social epistemology, sociology, testimony

Testimony conference: abstracts/program

Abstracts and program details for the upcoming Dartmouth conference are now available – see here.

May 20, 2008buddhism, cognitive science, embodiment, Evan Thompson, extended mind, Heidegger, journal of mind and behavior, Mind in Life, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, social cognition, the "hard" problem

Mind in Life

A short review of Evan Thompson’s recent Mind in Life from Metapsychology online. I have commissioned a close-grained review essay for the Journal of Mind and Behavior – stay tuned.

May 18, 2008Bounds of Cognition, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, epistemology, explanation, extended mind, neurophilosophy, personal identity, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, psychology, relativism, robert wilson, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Sociality

I received a message from Rob Wilson one of the most talented and broad-ranging philosopher-scientists around. He was updating me on what he’s been up to of late. He brought two things to my attention. 1. Rob has begun drafting the third instalment to his trilogy which he’s entitled Blood is Thicker than Water, nicht wahr? Terra Socialis: The Individual…

May 17, 2008aggregation, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, distributed knowledge, Economics, epistemology, political philosophy, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology

I don’t normally plug conferences but this one is unsual in that it falls squarely within my current research interests. Check out the conference webpage here.

May 15, 2008criminal verdicts, epistemology, Forbes, forensic science, forensics, injustice, justice, Roger Koppl, social epistemology, testimony

Epistemics for Forensics

Roger Koppl has a column on forensics in the latest issue of Forbes. Reason Magazine has also picked up the story. Roger also has an article “Epistemics for Forensics” coming out in the next issue of EPISTEME (5:2). The paper addresses problems of erroneous criminal verdicts that arise from the structure of the relationship between forensic…

May 13, 2008arnon keren, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, inference to the best explanation, jennifer lackey, john greco, jonathan adler, marc moffett, patrick rysiew, paul faulkner, Peter Lipton, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology

Testimony abstracts

The abstracts for issue 4:3 of EPISTEME are now available. Apologies for not having them when the announcement was first made – a publisher glitch (to put is very politely).

May 9, 2008Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, psychology, social epistemology, sociocognition

Gaslighting: Cognitive Sabotage in the Extended Mind

Here’s an interesting take on the notion of extended mind from the always thoughtful Susannah Devitt. I look forward to reading the complete paper.

May 7, 20081, distributed knowledge, epistemology, Neil Gross, political philosophy, relativism, Richard Rorty, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

Sociology of ideas

This review article/interview plugging a book by Neil Gross that deals with Richard Rorty’s intellectual journey is noteworthy because the writer of this book refers to the sociology of ideas (SI) as superseding the sociology of knowledge (SK): The old sociology of knowledge may have been terribly reductive — ideas are an expression of class interests…

May 6, 2008Bounds of Cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, psychology, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, stigmergy

Cognitive Scaffolding

This paper by Naomi Rokotnitz from a recently held conference featuring Andy Clark.

May 3, 2008alvin goldman, david christensen, disagreement, episteme, epistemology, jennifer lackey, social epistemology, sociology

CFP: the significance of disagreement

EPISTEME will hold its sixth annual conference at Northwestern University on June 26-27, 2009. The 2009 meeting will focus on the epistemological significance of disagreement. Confirmed participants include: Michael Bergmann (Purdue), Stewart Cohen (Arizona State), Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley) and Roger White (MIT). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Papers should be no more than 5,000 words, excluding notes and…