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).
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.
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…
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.
The Ideas that are Changing Politics Speaker: David Willetts MP Chair: Professor Kenneth Minogue
Here are two superb optical illusions to delight in – and no they are not animated gifs. The first is courtesy of Krandolf (check out the other groovy variations). The second image is courtesy of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (Here are some more I found).
It seems that the notion of embodied cognition is seeing a spike in the release of new books – not to mention that the mainstream media has now picked up the idea. I’ve already mentioned the Boston Globe piece. I’ve since discovered that there is an NPR piece plugging the Blakeslees’ The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. Other recent similar titles…
I’ve agreed to review Brad Prager’s The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth for the Journal of Mind & Behavior. As an “art-form” film attracts, at best the juvenile mind, or at worst, the pseudo intellect: Herzog is an island of artistic authenticity and integrity in a sea of vulgarity and schlock. I’m pleased that there now exists a…
On my daily train commute into Boston I was asked by another regular commuter what book I was reading – I showed him Adams’ & Aizawa’s The Bounds of Cognition. After reading the dust jacket blurb he then gave a surprisingly detailed “man on the Clapham omnibus” account of what he took to be “the body…
Papineau’s TLS review of Searle’s Freedom and Neurobiology
