Ron Chrisley has just been sent me a link to an article that features excerpts of an interview with him in the Australian science magazine Cosmos. The article “Dawn of the Robots” offers a nice overview of the conceptual problems faced by robotics and the state of the art – all wrapped up in the…
I want to give a plug to the Annual William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture that this year features Ruth Garrett Millikan on “The Tangle of Biological Purposes That Is Us.” For those of you in the Boston area this is an event that you really should try to attend. April 1, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. St. Francis…
Lehrer on Noë/Poole on Lehrer – nothing really of much interest from the effete world of “science” journalism.
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Here is a lovely practical (and little known) illustration of the power and nimbleness distributed knowledge and cognition. Here’s Steve Horwitz telling the story. Please, would those harboring a fashionable indignation about Walmart desist from writing to me. The point is not about the substance of their business, but the logistics of their business and management…
Larry Sanger’s EPISTEME article is cited in Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Oakeshott symposium on science, religion, and politics in the journal Zygon is now online. In this issue there is also a symposium on Owen Flanagan’s latest book The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. I was scheduled to participate in this symposium, a symposium that I’d originally suggested, but my computer went…
I want to bring your attention to the work of philosopher David Livingstone Smith. David is one of the foremost theorists in: 1. Biologically informed philosophical naturalism 2. Evolution and human nature 3. Deception and self-deception 4. The evolutionary psychology of war and peace 5. Dehumanization His recent books include Less Than Human (forthcoming); The…
Now it is becoming clear that group decisions are also extremely valuable for the success of social animals, such as ants, bees, birds and dolphins. And those animals may have a thing or two to teach people about collective decision-making. There’s an article in the Economist entitled “Decisions, decisions: What people can learn from how social…
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