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The A.I. Report

Forbes features a symposium on A.I: it’s past, present and future. The editor writes: Can machines think? In 1950, Alan Turing, considered by some to be the father of modern computing, published a paper in which he proposed that, “If, during text-based conversation, a machine is indistinguishable from a human, then it could be said…

being and time, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Descartes, Heidegger, phenomenology, ryle, simon critchley

Being Heidegger

Simon Critchley has the first of an eight-part series of blog postings on Heidegger’s Being and Time. Will he discuss the influence Heidegger has had on non-Cartesian cognitive science? We will see. Unlikely as it sounds, Gilbert Ryle’s critical notice (Mind XXXVIII 1929, 355-370) warmly welcomed Sein und Zeit despite the inherent difficulties of the work…

austrian economics, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Edelman, Enacted, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, functionalism, Fuster, intentionality, leslie marsh, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, spontanous orders, the "hard" problem, the sensory order

Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

Call for papers Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology Leslie Marsh, Volume Editor Advances in Austrian Economics Hayek’s philosophical psychology as set out in his The Sensory Order (1952) has, for the most part, been a neglected work. Social theory, Hayek’s traditional disciplinary constituency, has recently begun to take note and examine its place in the complete Hayek corpus. Despite being…

Adams & Aizawa, Adams and Aizawa, Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive systems, consciousness, Embedded, embodiment, extended mind, journal of mind and behavior, Justin Fisher, memory, metaphysics, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

The Bounds of Cognition

Once again I want to bring your attention to the superb Critical Notice by Justin Fisher in the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior on Adams’ and Aizawa’s The Bounds of Cognition.

british idealism, byron kaldis, category error, corey abel, creationist science, elizabeth corey, experience and its modes, hermeneutics, idealism, ignoratio elenchi, intelligent design, leslie marsh, liberalism, michael oakeshott, modality, oakeshott, podoksik, political philosophy, politics, science, science wars, sociology, stephen jay gould, timothy fuller, wittgenstein

Oakeshott on Religion, Science and Politics

The recent Zygon symposium on Oakeshott on religion, science and politics is now available as a free download. Click here and scroll down to the REFLECTING ON MICHAEL OAKESHOTT section.

Alva Noë, Andy Clark, Chalmers, cognitive science, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, colin klein, conservatism, cyborgs, Descartes, Dorothée Legrand, Evan Thompson, extended mind, Feuerbach, Mind in Life, neurophilosophy, Nietzsche, out of our heads, robert rupert, robert wilson, Shaun Gallagher, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

Extended hype?

Galen Strawson, while thinking there is much to be said for non-Cartesianism, doesn’t think that the radical turn taken by the extended mind hypothesis, is fruitful nor indeed really all that new. Stay tuned for an excellent review by Chris Onof of Strawson’s Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does physicalism entail panpsychism? in The Journal…

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Swarm cognition

Here is a terrific presentation entitled  “Macrotermes as models of swarm cognition” by Scott Turner. He writes: This presentation was given at the Workshop on Research Efforts and Future Directions in Neuroergonomics and Neuromorphics sponsored by the US Army Research Office on 23-25 October 2007 in College Park Maryland. The presentation outlines the developing theme…

Alva Noë, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, computational intelligence, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodiment, extended mind, mind body, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, Supersizing the Mind, trends in cognitive sciences

Noë on Clark

Noë’s Trends in Cognitive Sciences review “Extending our view of mind” of Clark’s Supersizing the Mind is now online (pay-per-view unless of course your university subscribes).