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April 10, 2010alvin goldman, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, epistemology, hayek, social epistemology, systems, william alston

What is this thing called social epistemology?

Check 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…

April 7, 2010aggregation, alvin goldman, Carlo Martini, Christian List, Condorcet, consensus, Lehrer-Wagner model, network theory, networks, Robert E. Goodin, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, sociocognition

Social epistemology meets network theory

Here’s a paper written by Carlo Martini.

April 6, 2010cognitive closure, cognitive science, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, hayek, network theory, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, nomoi, Road to Serfdom, spontaneous order, the sensory order, Troy Camplin

From The Sensory Order to the Moral Order

Check 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).

April 5, 2010akamai, data visualization, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, edge platform, internet, internet traffic, network theory, optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, streaming

Visualizing the internet: Akamai’s network traffic

Check 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.

April 1, 2010Antonio Damasio, cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, Frédérique de Vignemont, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Arizona ’10

Wish I were there. Maybe in two years time.

April 1, 2010amazon, cognitive science, collaborative filtering, consciousness, Dialogue on Consciousness, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, recommendation algorithm, robert howell, stigmergic, stigmergy, torin alter

A Dialogue on Consciousness/Amazon’s Recommendation Algorithm

Thanks to Amazon’s Recommendation Algorithm I chanced upon this book. I haven’t read it yet but it promises that it would provide a light (though hardly condescending) interlude between other drier and more technical works and the more stilted fictional attempts on which to hang the issues. And any work that makes philosophical approaches to…