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Robert Shapiro, DC Insider and Oakeshottian

Here’s a FT interview with Robert Shapiro, a D.C. insider, who has never forgotten the influence Oakeshott had on him. Robert has always been a very gracious correspondent – hopefully he’ll be kind enough to show me his art collection if I make it back to DC some time. In addition to chairing Sonecon, Dr.…

active externalism, active perception, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Eleanor Rosch, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, ezequiel di paolo, francesco varela, Michael Wheeler, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, robotics, Shaun Gallagher, Sherrilyn Roush, situated cognition, The Embodied Mind

The Embodied Mind: 20 years on

Commemorating a landmark book The Future of the Embodied Mind The summer school focuses on cognition in artificial and biological systems from a theoretical perspective that considers embodiment, situatedness, and action-relatedness as key elements in understanding and implementing cognitive systems. The school will be held in San Sebastián, Spain 5th – 9th September 2011 The school will…

brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, david palermo, Denny Proffitt, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, dualism, frank rosenblatt, gerald edelman, hayek, James wible, karl pribnam, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, qualia, social cognition, social connectionism, spontaneous orders, the sensory order, walter weimer, william butos

Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

Having just delivered an edited volume entitled Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology to the publisher, this is an opportune time to make widely available, for the first time, some photographs so generously sent to me by Walt Weimer (contact made through the good offices of a few of his students, some featured in the photos…

city planning, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, Howard Rheingold, mark elliott, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Stigmergy and City Planning

Here’s an interview conducted by Howard Rheingold with Mark Elliott who like myself has been promoting the virtues of stigmergy. The application of the concept to city planning and consultation is especially interesting since it’s a world I have recently come into contact with.