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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

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!).

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…

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