My chum Mirko Farina has alerted me to a high-powered collection he and co-author Julian Kiverstein are contributing to. Here is the table of contents. One of the intriguing chapter titles is by Andy Clark. (Mirko tells me the volume has been severely delayed). I’m also looking forward to Mirko’s review of another contributor to this…
Here’s a review of Searle’s Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization.
This is WILD – is this Andy Clark’s Natural-Born Cyborgs coming to full fruition? Thanks to my collaborator Marge Doyle for sending this my way. Check out this Award Abstract from the NSF and check out this paper by members of the Mobile Sensing Group at Dartmouth. Abstract Neural signals are everywhere just like mobile phones. We propose to…
Fred Adams, one of the most trenchant critics of extended cognition, has a new paper out here. If you appreciate Fred’s no-nonsense snappy style, check out another of his recent papers here.
Rick Grush and co-author Amanda Brovold gave an interesting presentation at UBC. Grush’s reference to online gaming – his analysis of the gamers transcripts – was fascinating. Abstract: I present (work done in collaboration with Amanda Brovold) an account of the semantics of demonstratives, both exophoric and endophoric. The account, which represents a significant shift…
Two of the leading players from each side of the extended mind divide (Ken Aizawa of course a pre-eminent critic; Mark Rowlands a long-time proponent) discuss EM. There is much besides on the Philosophy TV website.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has picked up on a paper by Gloria Origgi published in a themed issue of Social Epistemology.
Here’s a curiosity (well not really, Zappa was always the most articulate and most sceptical of “beat” composers). Here is Zappa responding to passages from Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. “On Junk Food for the Soul” New Perspective’s Quarterly, 1987 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE NATURE OF MUSIC “Music is the soul’s primitive and primary speech……
Neuron is offering free access to this issue until Oct 8.
Larry Shapiro has a new paper posted on his website. Prominent defenders of the extended cognition thesis have looked to evolutionary theory for support. Roughly, the idea is that natural selection leads one to expect that cognitive strategies should exploit the environment, and exploitation of the right sort results in a cognitive system that extends beyond the head…
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