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August 29, 2011cognitive science, consciousness, Jerry Fodor, language of thought, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, Susan Schneider

Schneider’s “The Language of Thought”

Here is another excellent interview from the New Books in Philosophy website.

August 29, 2011collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, episteme, epistemology, science, social epistemology

Collective knowledge and science

The themed October 2010 issue of EPISTEME is freely available for download.

August 27, 2011Brett Evans, cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, philosophy of mind, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, The Conscious Mind

The life of the mind

Interview with Dave Chalmers

August 25, 2011city planning, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, Howard Rheingold, mark elliott, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

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.

August 19, 2011David Runia, hellenism, philo of alexandria

Cambridge Companion to Philo

I’ve just discovered that there is a Cambridge Companion to Philo that includes contributions from eminent Philonists such as David Runia and David Winston. Runia especially has done some much for Philonic scholarship. Glad to see some “new” names involved. My interest in Philo can be found here.

August 18, 2011Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, consciousness, cyborgs, extended mind, externalism, mind waves, music, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind

Thinking Music

Here’s an experiment (I’m assuming it’s legit) brought to my attention by the blog Artificialites.

August 17, 2011A Treatise of Human Nature, Elizabeth Radcliffe, human nature, hume, moral philosophy, rationality, reason, The Philosopher's Magazine

Being Hume Man

Here’s an article by Elizabeth Radcliffe from TPM on Hume: He makes the astounding declaration that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

August 13, 2011artificial intelligence, biology, cognition, cybernetics, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, evolutionary biology, francesco varela, Humberto Maturana, Mind in Life, philosophy of mind

Autopoiesis and Cognition

Maturana and Varela’s classic Autopoiesis and Cognition is freely available here (H/T to Paul Loader). What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold and…

August 5, 2011alvin goldman, cognition, collective intentionality, episteme, epistemology, evidence, extended mind, externalism, individualism, memory, new books in philosophy, philosophy of mind, Putnam, Reliabilism, relying on others, Robert B. Talisse, robert nozick, sandy goldberg, social epistemology, testimony

Sandy Goldberg’s “extendedness” hypothesis

Here is an excellent website I’ve come across called New Books in Philosophy. One of the people behind this enterprise is Robert Talisse whose work I know from two articles in EPISTEME. Robert interviews Sandy Goldberg about his new book. Here’s an hour long audio discussion.

August 3, 20114E, active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, Casey Rufener, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, epistemology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, four-color-problem, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, Res Cogitans

Extending the Extended Mind to the Philosophy of Mathematics

Here’s a paper I chanced upon. The full title: “The Four-Color Theorem Solved, Again: Extending the Extended Mind to the Philosophy of Mathematics” (I’ve just noticed that Ken Aizawa has already beat me to the punch!).

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