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May 18, 2011active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognition, cognition in the wild, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, consciousness, david chalmers, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, Julian Kiverstein, Miko Farina, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, situated cognition

Extended Mind: Special Section in TEOREMA

Here is a bunch of extended mind papers in the Spring issue of Teorema.

May 17, 2011incommensurability, liberalism, liberty, moral philosophy, philosophical jurisprudence, political philosophy, raz, The Morality of Freedom

The Morality of Freedom 25 Years On

Seeing an announcement for an upcoming conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of Joe Raz‘ The Morality of Freedom nudged me to post recordings of a similar conference held to commemorate the book’s 20th anniversary with no less than Raz himself in attendance. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:

May 16, 2011alcohol, beer, eric idle, philosophers, philosophy of mind, qualia, roger scruton, steven hales, wine

Beer and Philosophy or Drinking and Thinking

Here’s an article from the Huffington Post. Of course, we all know that booze and the philosopher are close friends. Regarding the relationship between the two, there are two schools of thought. 1. that the qualic experience (and alcohol) are part and parcel of creative thought processes. 2. Alcohol is needed to numb the philosopher’s…

May 15, 2011brain, brain scans, brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, Kayt Sukel, mri, orgasm, pain

Orgasm as an altered state

Kayt Sukel performs an intimate act in an fMRI scanner to explore the pathways of pleasure and pain.

May 14, 2011ants, collaborative filtering, collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, recommendation algorithm, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, world wide web

Web Stigmergy

Stigmergy yet again – well, there is no escaping it. While I wouldn’t call stigmergy a new paradigm (that’s too pompous – in any event, paradigms only have shape in a historical sense), stigmergy is one of the most fruitful mechanisms around that speaks to distributed cognition. Check out this paper nicely titled “Standing on the…

May 8, 2011collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, computational intelligence, computer simulations, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Stigmergy Installation

Check out this installation supported by the Welcome Trust. People walking along Euston Road will encounter an unusually arresting reflection of themselves in a new light installation, ‘Reflex’, created by rAndom International. The work inhabits the windows of the Wellcome Trust as though it were a living organism. Reacting to viewers, passers-by and traffic on…

May 8, 2011artificial intelligence, austrian economics, brain science, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, hayek, mind body, neural networks, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, socialism, sociobiology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Friedrich Hayek

Born on this day in 1899

May 7, 2011atheism, conservatism, david hume, epistemology, hume, philosophy, political philosophy, ROBERT ZARETSKY

Dear dear David . . . we salute you

A nice piece (via my chum David Livingstone Smith) entitled “A Philosopher in Love“: The “chief triumph of art and philosophy,” he wrote years before meeting Boufflers, is that it “refines the temper” and “points out to us those dispositions which we should endeavor to attain, by a constant bent of mind and by repeated…

May 6, 2011cognitive science, consciousness, Maggie Boden, moral philosophy, patricia churchland, philosophy of mind

Maggie Boden reviews Pat Churchland’s latest

Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

May 6, 20114E, action, active externalism, active perception, Alva Noë, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind, situated cognition

Alva Noë Interview

Here is an interview with Alva in the German language Frankfurter Rundschau. Here is a video interview with Alva setting out in very general terms his research interest. Click here for a Google translation.