If the science is willing to allow that cognition can be embodied, embedded, enacted and/or extended then cognition is, or can be, some or all of these things. If it is not willing allow this, then they cannot. If cognition isn’t at least embodied WTF are we taking about? Well put Mark Rowlands! 4eCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied…
Controversial view expressed in Offbeat Magazine. There is much to say for this view but I can think of plausible counter-arguments to do with the inherent dynamism of tradition which New Orleans is the instantiation par excellence. Music in New Orleans is indeed inextricable from the city’s lifestyle. “In the 6th Ward, 7th Ward, 9th Ward…
Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasituated cognition
Here is Simon Critchley talking at Cornell. Love Critchley’s scathing take on Bono at about 50 mins in. What Bowie describes is a Büchnerian world of terror. The first line, “Silhouettes and shadows watch the revolution,” describes the languor and disappointment of a post-revolutionary situation. In an allusion to Eddie Cochran’s posthumously released 1960 hit, there…
That woman had a devious mind that was only predictable when she scented an opportunity to vanquish her husband. . . . Because it was Saturday, Levy Pants had ceased its assaults upon the concept of free enterprise for the weekend. . . . “You’re kneeling on Rex’s grave!” Ignatius shouted. “Now tell me what…
The very excellent Jack Weinstein in The Chronicle of Higher Education — If the paywall has kicked in a pdf can be downloaded here. Jack has of course contributed to Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith and has a forthcoming symposium on his recent book to be published in C+T. Adam SmithAdam…
Here is the intro to Roger Frantz’ chapter. ~~~~~~~ Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a polymath with several of his key concepts and theories either having modern counterparts and/or “enjoying” empirical support. Smith wrote about the origin and proper use of language, grammar, the history of astronomy and ancient physics, moral philosophy, music, dance, and poetry,…
Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought Volume 5, Issue 1, 2015 This article considers recent trends in government towards openness and transparency, particularly with respect to the publication of open data, in the context of Michael Oakeshott’s ideas of the nature of the state and the conditions for civility.…
Sometimes when she mentions God, it strikes me that my mother uses him as but one of the devices that come to hand in an outrageous man’s world, to be put to work like all the rest in the one enterprise she has any use for: the canny management of the shocks of life. It…
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