An interesting article by the excellent team of Harris, Barnier, Sutton and Keil CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mind
He died not so much a man without a country as a man without a world. Review in The Economist. George ProchnikStefan ZweigThe World of Yesterday
Therefore, my size itself is a safeguard against my ever sinking too low within the structure of our civilization. I was there — on the very rim of our age — when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence (pp. 195-196). (H/T to Cory McLaughlin for the…
Issue 1:3 now available. complexitycosmos & taxisFriedrich HayekMichael Oakeshottphilosophy of social sciencerationalism
You’ve got to love Susan Ford’s “understated overstatedness” or perhaps the reverse or even perhaps Southern Stoicism — whatever, she is a treasure! Check out her Louisiana Kitchen and Culture mag. Two summers ago, when hurricane Isaac was looming in the Gulf of Mexico, I took stock of my freezer to see what I could…
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Extended mind and after: socially extended mind and actor-network by Kono, Tetsuya Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science Personal Identity, Functionalism and the Extended Mind by Stanciu, Marius M Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences Minds as social institutions by Castelfranchi, Cristiano Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Extended cognition and the explosion of knowledge by Ludwig,…
Several people have recently inquired about the status of the forthcoming Adam Smith volume. Here are the finalized details. Adam Smithadam smith problempropriety and prosperity
The grandeur of my physique, the complexity of my worldview, the decency and taste implicit in my carriage, the grace with which I function in the mire of today’s world — all of these at once confuse and astound Clyde. Now he has relegated me to working in the French Quarter, an area which houses…
On the eve of the Walker Percy Weekend here is Chris Turner-Neal assessing one of WP’s later works that will be discussed on one of the WPW panels. Here also is Adam Frank on Lost in the Cosmos. adam frankChris Turner-Neallost in the cosmosReligionscienceWalker PercyWalker Percy Weekend
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