How do the dancers visualize his cues? How do they respond to one another in the group dynamic? How do they remember? And how does he? There’s a fascinating experiment reported in the LA Times (and blog) on distributed cognition being run by David Kirsh in association with maestro choreographer Wayne McGregor. Of course, the reason the…
ryle, v. to give examples. “He ryles on and on without ever daring a conclusion.” Hence, n. An example. “His argument was elucidated by a variety of apt ryles.” “The original ryle has been chisholmed beyond recognition.” (2) A variety of smooth, lucid, thin ice that forms on bogs. The Philosophical Lexicon Though published several…
Some fantastic footage of swarming Starlings.
It’s just occurred to me that this year marks the 10th anniversary of Alvin Goldman’s Knowledge in a Social World. The significance of this work cannot be overstated. Here was the doyen of analytical epistemology completing a major project that was begun 13 years earlier in Epistemology and Cognition. Alvin made it respectable for those…
True to the spirit of stigmergy I was pleased to learn of a wiki dedicated to all things stigmergical – StigmergyLive.
Hayek’s notion of cognitive closure, a mark of the human condition, can be ameliorated if the social and artifactual world functions as a kind of distributed extra-neural memory store manifest as dynamic traditions, part of the resources for acting, thinking or communicating. This cognitive¬epistemological¬liberty tripartite is closely related to a long-standing bone of contention in…
Attributions of relativism to Oakeshott are twofold: The first, and the more common attribution, is from the general perspective of viewing Oakeshott as a postmodern relativist. The second, more technical aspect and less familiar attribution, involves the assumption that Oakeshott was a coherentist. I examine the second view first. On this assumption it is standard to…
Here is an interview with Hayek by John O’Sullivan (yes, the John O’Sullivan of O’Sullivan’s First Law.) Some time ago I posted a rather poor quality version of it – this one seems OK. This version I found via The Austrian Economists blog.
The list of speakers for EPISTEME 2009 to be held at Northwestern is now available. Accommodation and travel details here.
The latest issue of Seed features an article entitled “The Hive Mind” by Benjamin Phelan: The selfless behavior of ants, bees, and wasps has confounded scientists for more than a century. Is the question a red herring or the key to a new evolutionary synthesis? Speaking…
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