Recollections of Turing
This from The Independent Alan TuringBletchley ParkCognitive sciencePhilosophy of mindTuringTuring machineTuring test
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Towards an externalist neuroeconomics
Here is a recent paper kindly brought to my attention by the author. To achieve the aim of establishing the case for externalist neuroeconomics, I rely on other approaches to externalism in the cognitive sciences which focus on the role of external causal processes establishing mental phenomena in terms of interactions between neuronal states and…
Hayek and Behavioral Economics
The publisher has now put up a webpage for this volume. Austrian SchoolCognitionDeirdre McCloskeyEconomicsEpistemologyFriedrich HayekHerbert GintisHerbert SimonPeter Boettke
Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement
Here’s a plug for an Oxford days chum. The book has won the Baron prize. FrankismIsraelIsraelitesJacob FrankJewsJudaism
Extended mind and business
EM finds some currency in the business world. In the work entitled the “Extended Mind” Andy Clark and David Chalmers asked where does the mind stop and the world end? This question led them to looking at our “gameified” world and the classic game of Tetris. Clark and Chalmers found a piece of work done…
Oakeshott in French
Adrien Guillemin tells me that that the French translation of Michael Oakeshott’s “On Being Conservative” has been released by Les Editions du Félin in Paris with a Preface and a biographical epilogue. He continues: “The book has already been welcomed by a nice editorial in Le Monde and one on the cultural channel of Radio France.”…
From cognition’s location to the epistemology of its nature
The latest installment from the CSR special issue on EM of a couple of years back (three more papers to come). Andy ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEpistemologyExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Three Rival Views of Tradition (Arendt, Oakeshott and MacIntyre)
A recent paper from Journal of the Philosophy of History. Alasdair MacIntyrecomplexityEpistemologyExtended MindHannah ArendtMichael OakeshottPhilosophyPhilosophy of historySocial SciencesSpontaneous orderTradition
Thomism and the extended mind
This from the Catholic journal New Blackfriars: Of course there are other ways of doing away with the epistemological gap between mind and world. Thomists would be interested in whether EMT is motivated, in part at least, by a desire to remove the gap that philosophers have often supposed to exist between the world outside…
Why Tolerate Religion?
Brian Leiter’s forthcoming book. Brian LeiterChurch-State RelationsNew AtheismReligionReligions FreedomToleration
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