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July 20, 2011brain, brain science, consciousness, david colman, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, Wilder Penfield

David Colman

David Colman – a great loss. A favourite message turned on the belief that science moves forward most significantly and dramatically as a result of “undirected, non-targeted, curiosity-driven research.” McGill obituary Globe & Mail obituary

July 17, 2011philosophy of psychology, psychology, robert haskell

Rob Haskell Remembered

Today marks the first anniversary of the death of my chum Rob Haskell. Here is an obituary I posted earlier this year and a briefer one published on the UNE website. Raised along the mid-Maine coast he loved, he combined in his own personality the rugged solitude, beauty, and magnetism of that state: he was first…

July 16, 2011complexity, consciousness, neural correlates, neural networks, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, petr bob, schizophrenia

Consciousness, schizophrenia and complexity

Here is a survey paper that I was action editor for.

July 15, 2011betsy sparrow, cognitive science, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended mind, externalism, memory, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, stigmergy, transactive memory

“Extending” the mind via Google

Here are two articles from Science: “Searching for the Google Effect on People’s Memory“ “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips“ Betsy Sparrow is interviewed here. GoogleWeb search engine

July 10, 2011evidence, evidence and law, fMRI, freewill, genetics, neurobiology, neuroscience, robert sapolsky

The Brain on Trial

Here’s an article in The Atlantic. Neuroscience is beginning to touch on questions that were once only in the domain of philosophers and psychologists, questions about how people make decisions and the degree to which those decisions are truly “free.” These are not idle questions. Ultimately, they will shape the future of legal theory and…

June 27, 20114E, cognitive science, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, ezequiel di paolo, functionalism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology

Enaction: An Interview with Ezequiel Di Paolo

Here is an interview posted on the eclectic APPS bog. Ezequiel is one of the main current players in enactivist theory and has a recently published (edited) book out that I’ve been reading. Enactivism is a position I’m quite sympathetic to though I’m sceptical of “new paradigm” talk.

June 26, 2011philosophy, steve pyke

Steve Pyke Talks About His Work

The wonderfully talented photographic portraitist Steve Pyke talks about how he came to photographing philosophers. A fascinating project that seemed to emerge. I guess it took someone like Pyke who wasn’t familiar with their work not to be dazzled. He talks about his editorial background and editing sensibility. Click here for the half hour programme.…

June 23, 2011Elizabeth Anderson, episteme, epistemology, Erik J. Olsson, Max Albert, michael strevens, social epistemology

EPISTEME: 8:2 now available

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June 23, 2011alan turing, Andrew Hodges, cognitive science, computational intelligence, philosophy of mind, Turing, turing machine, turing test

Alan Turing

Born on this day in 1912. Andrew Hodges’ Turing page. See his Stanford entry as well. Alan TuringAndrew HodgesArtificial intelligenceTuringTuring machineTuring testWorld War II