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buddhism, byron kaldis, consciousness, corey abel, creationist science, elizabeth corey, evolution, ignoratio elenchi, intelligent design, leslie marsh, michael oakeshott, mind body, modality, oakeshott, owen flanagan, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, podoksik, political philosophy, politics, religion, the "hard" problem, timothy fuller, Zygon

Oakeshott symposium

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…

david livingstone smith, david smith, deception, evolutionary biology, human nature, self-deception, war and peace

Evolutionary roots of deception and self-deception

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…

adam smith, aggregation, ants, artificial intelligence, bees, Bernard de Mandeville, Christian List, cognitive modeling, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, evolutionary biology, financial markets turmoil, hayek, Mass Collaboration, neurobiology, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of social science, rationality, robotics, robots, spontanous orders, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, The Fable of The Bees, think markets

Fable of the Bees

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…

collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, Deborah Tollefsen, distributed knowledge, Don Fallis, episteme, epistemology, George Bragues, hayek, K. Brad Wray, Lawrence Sanger, Luciano Floridi, Mass Collaboration, P. D. Magnus, philosophy of social science, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology, spontanous orders, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, Web 2.0, wiki, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers

The Epistemology of Mass Collaboration

 The new issue of EPISTEME is now available. Table of Contents Special Offer ALL issues free until Feb 28 – hurry now while stocks last :)

Adams and Aizawa, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, distributed cognition, embodiment, extended mind, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, out of our heads, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, robert rupert

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind

I want to give an early plug for Rob Rupert’s forthcoming book Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind. Though I haven’t read the book, I have read pretty much everything else Rob has written. Rob is one of the most serious-minded and one of the most talented philosophers around. Rob doesn’t merely crank out “clever” stuff…

call for papers, conference, Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, oakeshott, political philosophy, politics

CFP: Michael Oakeshott Association Conference

Michael Oakeshott Association Conference November 12-14, 2009 Baylor University Waco, Texas 2009 marks the fifth meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, a group founded in 2001 to encourage the study of one of the 20th century’s most important political philosophers. Previous conferences have taken place at the London School of Economics, Colorado College, and the…

active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, computational intelligence, consciousness, Evan Thompson, extended mind, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, out of our heads, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, psychology, Putnam, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, susan hurley

Out of Our Heads

Hot on the heels of Andy Clark’s Supersizing the Mind comes yet another “extended mind” type book with a colorful title Out of Our Heads, the writer Alva Noë. Noë is one of the sharpest guys around – his last book Action in Perception has established itself as a recent classic. Great to see the…