Here is a twofold review by Andy Clark to appear in Mind and made available by Mirko Farina on his Facebook page. For other critical notices of Adams and Aizawa and Rupert see the Journal of Mind and Behavior (Justin Fisher’s review of A&A, Aizawa’s reply; Rupert’s review of Clark and the soon to appear…
Here’s a curiosity – Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s elder brother, was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. What association or society (aside from The Royal Society) could claim intellectual giants such as Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Paine and Madison as its members? Here’s Joseph’s obituary from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 6,…
Jeff being interviewed a while back on the launch of his excellent On Intelligence. See his TED talk here.
Here’s a new book by Aryeh Botwinick that will hit the shelves in November much sooner than the listed February of next year (or so Aryeh has been advised by PUP). Chapter 1 is available for download.
Here is the latest issue of EPISTEME guest edited by K. Brad Wray.
The publisher of the relatively new journal Swarm Intelligence has made all content freely accessible. I’m not sure how long this offer is good for but it’s an opportunity to sample some of the best work being done in this field. Of course, the editorial board is a “Whose Who” of swarm theorists.
My talk “Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker” for the 2010 Wirth Conference at Simon Fraser University October 15 & 16, 2010 on “Austrian Views on Experts & Epistemic Monopolies.” I think the talk went down OK. Good to see some old friends and make new friends. Thanks to Wirth for sponsoring the…
Tune into the live stream of Rob Wilson’s keynote talk at the ARPA. Rob is of course the author of the excellent Boundaries of the Mind.
Here is Barry Smith talking on the BBC World Service on The Mysteries of the Brain.
Pete Mandik and Richard Brown, two of the most active, enthusiastic and competent “consciousness studies” bloggers (and who still find time to teach, write good articles, dictionary entries and books) discuss consciousness and higher-order representation on Philosophy TV.
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