I’ve finally received a copy of Aryeh Botwinick’s book that I noted last year. The topic of Oakeshott’s scepticism has occupied Aryeh for a good decade now when he presented a paper at the inaugural conference of the MOA in 2001 entitled “Unifying Skeptical Motifs in Oakeshott’s Thought”. Thanks is due to none other than…
Here is an article from the latest issue of The Atlantic.
Last year I reported the death of my chum Rob Haskell. Here is an obituary from the latest issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior with which he was long associated. A Compassionate Scholar: A Tribute to Dr. Robert Eugene Haskell April 16, 1938 – July 17, 2010 Though no rigorous researcher would downplay…
Here’s a nicely done and amusing sketch/skit inspired by the locus classicus The Extended Mind article.
Check out the latest themed issue of Swarm Intelligence. Here is the freely available introduction. Nice to see the term “cognition” used since I have been using the term in this regard for a few years.
At last Colin Klein’s terrific critical notice of Rob Rupert’s fine-grained critique Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind is now available in the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior.
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences has published a bumper themed issue devoted to EM as well as other related theses, now collectively known as 4E. There is a “whose who” of contributors including the old firm Adams and Aizawa, Barnier, Sutton, Menary, Sterelny, Harris and others. This promises to be a super “must read” collection. Congrats…
Here’s a snappy piece by Alva Noë on man vs. machine. Is the ant smart? Or stupid? Maybe neither. Or, most intriguingly of all, maybe it is both? Is there an experimentum crucis that we might perform to settle a question like this once and for all? No. Intelligence isn’t like that. It isn’t something that…
Here’s a nice poster from Janet Marsden at Syracuse: Abstract — Geospatial technologies in conjunction with wireless grids will offer a context for locating and coordinating team activities in such a way that the nature of each team member’s effort may be known and understood by other members. This constructed group knowledge enables teams to respond to unforeseen and emergent contingencies…
Here is a new paper from Nivedita Gangopadhyay. Also check out her recent paper for the collection I edited.
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