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How the body shapes the mind

Some thoughts on Shaun Gallagher’s How the Body Shapes the Mind, Oxford University Press What’s the ugliest Part of your body? What’s the ugliest Part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it’s your MIND… I think it’s your mind                                                                                                        (Frank Zappa, 1968)   Shaun Gallagher marshals…

Perspectives on Social Cognition: Contents

Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research – Perspectives on Social Cognition Some papers are now available as pre-press versions. 1. Introduction to Perspectives on Social Cognition – Leslie Marsh & Christian Onof 2. Functionalism and mental boundaries – Lawrence Shapiro 3. Consciousness and the social mind – Philip Robbins 4. Social relationships and groups: New…

Some other works-in-progress

I have good drafts of four papers that I’ll post as and when I’ve polished them up: 1. Social organicism in the political philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet Now available here.   Abstract: This paper is an attempt to retrieve one part of Bosanquet’s political philosophy, the positive part which I term his “Social Organicism”. The most…

Real People: Personal Identity without Thought Experiments

I have always thought that the topic of personal identity (PI) was the most fascinating topic in metaphysics and perhaps in all of philosophy. Furthermore, this view was enhanced by the consistently high quality of the PI literature attracting the likes of historical thinkers such as Locke, Butler and Hume – and recent thinkers such as Strawson (Peter), Williams,…