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February 19, 2008atheism, brights, cognitive science, Colin McGinn, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, epistemology, intelligent design, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, owen flanagan, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, psychology, religion, Rue, science

Naturalizing Religion

I notice that Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind have received a big grant for the “study of the cognitive science of religion” from the Templeton Foundation. Who’d have thought that the project of naturalizing religion would become so sexy – for reasons I won’t go…

February 9, 2008conspiracy theories, distributed knowledge, Economics, editorial projects, episteme, epistemology, social epistemology, social ontology

Free Content Access to EPISTEME

To promote Edinburgh University Press’s new content management system, the Press is offering free access to EPISTEME until the end of March. See here.

February 2, 2008british idealism, conservatism, Economics, epistemology, idealism, oakeshott, philosophical jurisprudence, political philosophy

The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence

Oakeshott’s great essay “The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence” is now available in book form. For several years prior to the opening up of the LSE Oakeshott archives, this essay was being passed around in photocopy form, a copy of a copy etc . . . making it ever harder to read. Whatever else is in this collection, this…

February 1, 2008consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Dennett, intelligent design, journal of mind and behavior, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, religion, reviews, science, social cognition, social epistemology

Dennett’s Breaking the Spell

Update: A digital version of this essay is now available from the Journal of Mind and Behavior website – click here or here. Here is a final MS of my review essay on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell published in Journal of Mind and Behavior (Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Summer & Autumn 2006).

January 29, 2008Adams & Aizawa, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, cognitive science, consciousness, dementia, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, inference to the best explanation, journal of mind and behavior, metaphysics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology

Bounds of Cognition II

Press release cum interview for The Bounds of Cognition, a book I have already heartily recommended. I’m pleased to say that the authors are contributing to a themed issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior on the “extended mind” that I’m editing.

January 27, 2008conservatism, hayek, John Gray, liberalism, philosophers, philosophy, political philosophy

Black and White Gray

Check out this scathing review published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 18th – Section: The Chronicle Review Volume 54, Issue 19, Page B5). Beyond any interest it may have to those who follow John Gray’s output, the review is salient to the recent “controversy” about philosophers being uncivil. My favourite line from the following review…

January 25, 2008cognitive science, distributed knowledge, Economics, epistemology, hayek, liberalism, neurobiology, political philosophy, psychology, reviews, science, social epistemology, stigmergy

The Mind of the Market

Tyler Cowen’s Washington Post review of Michael Shermer’s The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales From Evolutionary Economics.

January 23, 2008oakeshott, political philosophy

Oakeshott Memorial Lecture

The Ideas that are Changing Politics Speaker: David Willetts MP Chair: Professor Kenneth Minogue