Author: manwithoutqualities

Browse by:
cognitive science, consciousness, journal of mind and behavior, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology

New Issue of Journal of Mind and Behavior

Vol.28 No 3. Summer 2007 Vol.28 No 4. Autumn 2007 Why History Matters: Associations and Causal Judgment in Hume and Cognitive Science. Mark Collier, University of Minnesota, Morris The Phenomenology of Freedom. Tomis Kapitan, Northern Illinois University Process, Quantum Coherence, and the Stream of Consciousness. Keith A. Choquette, Brockton, Massachusetts The Frontal Feedback Model of…

cognitive modeling, cognitive science, connectionism, distributed knowledge, extended mind, hayek, social cognition, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Visual Complexity

Thanks to Simon Garnier I discovered this wonderful website dedicated to representations of complexity. As a social epistemologist I have a particular interest in knowledge networks  and  social networks. The images that draw upon biology for inspiration are particular compelling – on aesthetic grounds alone. complexity

identity, Leibnitz, liberalism, metaphysics, personal identity, political philosophy, social cognition, social constructivism, social identity, sociocognition

Extension of a philosophical theory of identity

It was a nice surprise to see that philosopher of social science, Daniel Little, has joined the blogosphere. Motivated by (but not responding directly to) his posting “Who has social identity” I offer these thoughts.    Philosophy has only recently begun to turn its attention to the notion of social identity, territory that sociologists, social anthropologists and historians…

Chalmers, cognitive science, Colin McGinn, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, deism, embodiment, metaphysics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, psychology, religion, science, science wars, social cognition, sociocognition, stigmergy, the "hard" problem, Zygon

The ‘Hard Problem’ – Consciousness, Experience, and Mind

This past Monday I presented a talk to the Advanced Seminar Program at the Chicago-based Zygon Center for Religion and Science and editorial home of the journal Zygon: Journal of Science & Religion. My host was Zygon’s editor Phil Hefner. The theme of this year’s seminar was The ‘Hard Problem’ – Consciousness, Experience, and Mind – my talk dealt…

Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, distributed knowledge, extended mind, journal of mind and behavior, neurophilosophy, stigmergy

Supersizing the Mind

I read on Dave Chalmers’ weblog that he’s written the preface to Andy Clark’s forthcoming Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. It’s very exciting news that a) there is a new book by Clark, perhaps the best stylist around and that b) Chalmers (and Clark) have returned to considering their thesis of active externalism ten years after…