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Noë: Does Thinking Happen In The Brain?

Speaking of Andy Clark and Alva Noë in the previous posting, here is Noë writing for NPR set to continue in another installment.

Alva Noë, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, connectionism, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, distributed cognition, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, out of our heads, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

Andy Clark in the New York Times

After some very middling opinion articles in this forum we have Andy Clark who is both a superb stylist and actually has interesting things to say. The title of the piece echos Alva Noë’s recent Out of Our Heads. Andy references some great images recently featured in the NYT that I was tempted to say something…

cognitive science, concept of mind, conservatism, corey abel, Descartes, epistemology, knowing how knowing that, oakeshott, philosophy of history, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, ryle, situated cognition, social epistemology

Ryle and Oakeshott

At last here is the book in which my essay “Ryle and Oakeshott on the know-how/know-that distinction” appears, masterly edited by Corey Abel. A draft of the paper can be found here. Don’t get hung up by the use of the word “conservatism” in the collection’s title – Oakeshott’s conservatism bears no resemblance to those…

cognition, cognitive science, computationalism, functionalism, Gualtiero Piccinini, Jerry Fodor, paul churchland, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, physicalism, Putnam

The Mind as Neural Software?

Here is a superb paper by Gualtiero Piccinini that brings much needed clarity to a longstanding issue. A penultimate ms can be found here. As a consequence, when the behavior of ordinary computers is explained by program execution, the program is not just a description. The program is also a (stable state of a) physical component of…

cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, computer simulations, cybernetics, emergence, epistemic systems, extended cognitive systems, externalism, feedback, situated cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, systemsoriented social epistemology

Stigmergy group

My collaborator Marge Doyle and I have set up a LinkedIn group for the many academic disciplines that now have an interest in stigmergy. Go to LinkedIn and search LinkedIn groups for “stigmergy.”

adam smith, Fred Rosen, HLA Hart, kant, liberalism, MANUEL ESCAMILLA-CASTILLO, oakeshott, philosophical jurisprudence, punishment

Jurisprudence and Oakeshott

Here is a just published paper that draws heavily on Oakeshott. Ratio Juris. Vol. 23 No. 4 December 2010 (460–78) Abstract. There is a vast literature on the meanings of legal penalties. However, we lack a theory that explains them according to the formation of the modern state. Oakeshott’s theory can help explain this phenomenon, leading to…