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April 29, 2011hume

David Hume

David Hume Paying my respects

April 27, 2011philosophical logic, philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, wittgenstein

Recovered Wittgenstein material

Here is an article in The Guardian, the release coinciding with W’s birth (26 Apr.) and death (29 Apr.) dates.

April 25, 2011brain, cognitive science, locke, Molyneux's Problem, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, qualia

Here’s a write-up in the New York Times trumpeting a paper that apparently resolves Molyneux’s Problem: Research published online April 10 in the journal Nature Neuroscience may have finally answered the question, which has vexed philosophers and scientists for more than 300 years.

April 20, 2011brain, brain scans, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, dan lloyd, fMRI, language, music, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, psychology

Mind as Music

Dan Lloyd has alerted me to this article of his published just today in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Aside from his academic work Dan, it should not be forgotten, is also a formidable novelist.

April 20, 20113-D, fred astaire

Herzog Interview

Here is an NPR interview with Werner talking about his latest documentary “The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams“. Interesting thoughts on filming in 3-D: The brain is lazy and tries to avoid 3-D . . . Cave of Forgotten DreamsChauvet CaveWerner Herzog

April 17, 2011david livingstone smith, essentialism, ethics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, less than human, neurophilosophy, neuroscience

Less Than Human

My chum David Livingstone Smith’s latest book is getting some good coverage. The latest review of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others can be found in Scientific American.

April 16, 2011brain, brain science, churchland, cognitive closure, cognitive science, Colin McGinn, complex adaptive systems, connectionism, consciousness, Descartes, distributed cognition, dualism, Edelman, embodied cognition, embodiment, erol basar, evolutionary biology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, friedrich hayek, gerald edelman, hayek, joaquin fuster, mri, networks, neural correlates, neural networks, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, qualia, self-referentiality, situated cognition, social cognition, spontaneous order, the "hard" problem, the sensory order

Brain-Body-Mind

Here is the recently published book by my chum Erol Başar who as it happens is also contributing to my forthcoming edited book entitled Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology. Not surprisingly, there is much reference to Hayek’s The Sensory Order peppered throughout Erol’s book most notably in section 2.12 (pp. 39-41). Other distinguished neuroscientists who appreciate…

April 15, 2011Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, l'homme sans qualite, L’homme sans qualité, man without qualities, robert musil

Robert Musil

Robert Musil (November 6, 1880 – April 15, 1942). A chapter from Man Without Qualities entitled: A chapter that can be skipped by anyone who has no very high opinion of thinking as an occupation. See also this forthcoming collection.

April 14, 2011bill nye, brain, brain science, carl sagan, jill bolte taylor, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, oliver sacks, philosophy of mind, robert winston, symphony of science, V.S. Ramachandran

Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science

Here is the Symphony of Science‘s latest music video – “Ode to the Brain”. “Ode to the Brain” is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sacks, it covers different aspects the…

April 12, 2011Economics, embodied cognition, embodiment, Frédéric Basso, multi-agent modeling, neuroeconomics, neuroscience, Olivier Oullier, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social networking, sociocognition

Embodied economics

We know that extended mind discussion is entering unlikley quarters. The same it seems is happening with embodiment. Check out this recent paper “Embodied economics: how bodily information shapes the social coordination dynamics of decision-making” by Olivier Oullier and Frederic Basso. To date, experiments in economics are restricted to situations in which individuals are not influenced by the physical…