How Weird Is Consciousness?
A thumbnail overview of consciousness by Alison Gopnik in Slate. alison gopnik
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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…
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.”
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…
Quinton on Wittgenstein
Here is me old chum Tony Quinton being interviewed by Bryan Magee on Wittgenstein. Here we have a master expositor being interviewed by Magee who has done so much to bring philosophy to a popular audience without vulgarizing it. I think this was a series of interviews taken from a late night Channel 4 series…
EPISTEME 2011
The 2011 EPISTEME conference will focus on the intersection of formal and social epistemology. The use of formal models in social epistemology is not a new development. Many philosophers have modeled concepts and ideas in social epistemology by using formal tools of various types (e.g., game theory, Bayesian decision theory, the theory of judgment aggregation,…
Agency and Embodied Cognition
Embodied cognition and Merleau-Ponty in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society – wonders will never cease!
Anglo-American Idealism
I want to give a plug for this new book edited by James Connelly and Stamatoula Panagakou. They have worked tirelessly in keeping interest in idealism alive and have brought together a who’s who of experts in this field. However unfashionable and derided idealism might be, I for one still find it a fertile tradition…
Andy Clark Interview
Here is an interview conducted by Howard Rheingold, as he says motivated by Andy’s Natural-Born Cyborgs. Note Andy’s reference to stigmergic (swarm) behavior though he doesn’t actually use the term. (Via David Livingstone Smith and Mirko Farina).
Colin Klein Reviews Rob Rupert
Check out the ms of Colin Klein’s critical notice (forthcoming in Journal of Mind and Behavior) of Rob Rupert, something I’ve been trailing for some time.
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