Fodor on Clark
Jerry Fodor reviews Andy Clark’s Supersizing the Mind in the London Review of Books. Dave Chalmers responds on his blog.
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Another Stigmergic Application
Here’s an article that talks about using mechanical drones to efficiently monitor the vast area that is Australia’s bush fire zone. The article mentions Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and stigmergy – two notions that are of particular interest to my work. The article: Learning from birds to study fires on the fly
Wing Chun
It seems to me that the practice of Wing Chun cries out for a philosophical and empirical discussion – something I have yet to come across. Specifically, Wing Chun’s emphasis on “bodily awareness” or sensitivity along with an Occam-like approach to movement, would be of interest to the embodiment and phenomenology literature. See the Chi…
Dead Philosophers
An article in the NYT on Simon Critchley’s latest book. dead philosopherssimon critchley
PhilPapers
Another great online service (a companion to MindPapers) has been brought to fruition by David Chalmers, David Bourget and Wolfgang Schwarz. PhilPapers
Evidence and Law
The latest issue of EPISTEME is a terrific bumper issue devoted to this fascinating topic. As if that’s not news enough, it is available for free download – hurry while stocks last! As plugged by Leiter. Table of Contents – Evidence and Law Special offer – all free issues free until Feb 28 Journal Homepage
Hurley: The shared circuits model
In case you haven’t come across this, a posthumous article by Susan Hurley entitled “The shared circuits model (SCM): How control, mirroring, and simulation can enable imitation, deliberation, and mindreading” along with responses, has been posted on Susan’s Memorial Conference website.
Free Access to EPISTEME
EUP are offering FREE online access to EPISTEME until the end of February 2009. Register with the site to access the free content. Articles are available in PDF and PDF Plus format. PDF Plus is an enhanced PDF file format in which references are hyperlinked to the abstract for the referenced article on its home publisher website. If you enjoy…
Liberal Education
Stanley Fish in the New York Times blog invokes Michael Oakeshott in considering the debate between education seen in purely instrumental terms vs. education as having intrinsic value as an introduction into the postulates of our culture. Only the other night I caught a news item where everyone was talking in terms of a university…
Extended Mind Thesis Enters Mainstream
The Brain: How Google Is Making Us Smarter Humans are “natural-born cyborgs,” and the Internet is our giant “extended mind.” Science journalist Carl Zimmer writes about the extended mind thesis in the latest issue of Discover. Whatever one might think about the Clark-Chalmers argument, Zimmer offers a well-needed corrective to the recent rash of articles…
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