I’m very much looking forward to this Monist collection on Robert Musil edited by Bence Nanay. It’s about time Musil got the mainstream philosophical recognition he so deserves. Bravo Bence! Needless to say that with my moniker I’m a great fan of Musil. Here is an extract from Musil’s Man Without Qualities. And if ever…
A fascinating talk by (ontology kingpin) Barry Smith entitled “John Searle and Hernando de Soto: The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality.“
Check out this recent(ish) paper by Andy Clark in Mind Vol. 118 . 472 . October 2009 Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include the goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with…
Here is the wonderfully lucid and often provocative Maggie Boden being interviewed. Check out her monumental Mind as Machine. Few, if any, are better placed to offer such a wide perspective of this wildly exciting field.
Here’s the penultimate draft of the aforementioned paper by Julian Kiverstein and Mirko Farina: Abstract: Like many other studies, this paper focuses on the ways in which the functional isomorphism between neural and extra-neural features can provide the means to meet the criteria for cognitive extension. However, unlike these other studies, this paper acknowledges the…
The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available – based upon last year’s Edinburgh conference.
Check out the very important work being done by Roger Koppl and his associate Jim Cowan of the Institute for Forensic Science Administration (for an accessible overview of Roger and Jim’s work see Roger’s Forbes interview from a few years back). To get a sense just how vital their work is consider the stats cited…
Turing machine: this via my chum David Livingstone Smith.
Here’s a new paper by Shannon Spaulding. The abstract: Extended cognition is the view that some cognitive processes extend beyond the brain. One prominent strategy of arguing against extended cognition is to offer necessary conditions on cognition and argue that the proposed extended processes fail to satisfy these conditions (Adams and Aizawa, 2008; Rupert, 2010; Weiskopf,…
Today marks the death of Robert Nozick one of the most versatile philosophers of the last quarter of the 20th Century. The more I read Nozick, the more astonishing his talent seems to be. He writes with such subtle twists about so many issues from politics to epistemology to identity to consciousness, to ethics to…
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