Review Essay: Andy Clark’s Natural Born Cyborgs
A review essay of Andy Clark’s Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence
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Review Essay: Dennett’s Sweet Dreams
A review of Daniel Dennett’s Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness. A final version is available here in MS form. Drop me a line if you’d like an offprint for citation purposes. Published in the Journal of Mind and Behavior (Spring 2007).
Review Essay: Oakeshott’s Lectures in the History of Political Thought
“Political Experience” A copy is available direct from publisher’s website.
Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott
Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott. In The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott —————————————————– This paper highlights a troubling tension within the philosophy of Michael Oakeshott. The relativistic stance that informs his radical constructivism gives license to socio-political conclusions we know Oakeshott couldn’t possibly accept. Politically, Oakeshott cannot accept constructionist social ontologies that are forged in…
EPISTEME: Journal of Social Epistemology
Along with a sometime collaborator, Chris Onof of Imperial College London and Birkbeck College London, I am the co-founder of EPISTEME. I edited volume 1 and remain as an Advisory Editor to the editorial team.
Journal of Mind and Behavior
I am editing a special issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior examining the extended mind thesis. The list of contributors are: Fred Adams, Chair of the Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science and Director of Cognitive Science Program, University of Delaware. Kenneth Aizawa, Professor of Philosophy, Centenary College of Louisiana. Colin Allen, Department…
Cognitive Systems Research
I am editing a special issue of Cognitive Systems Research entitled Perspectives of Social Cognition. For full and updated details click here.
Building a resource
In a stigmergical spirit, I welcome anyone who has an interest in the topic and who would like to a be a contributor to all things stigmergic: a) online discussion forum; b) the compiling of a list of online papers and other online resources; c) a list of theorists with a link to their websites. …
Stigmergy
In its most generic formulation, stigmergy (an optimization technique) is the phenomenon of indirect communication mediated by modifications of the environment.
Sociocognition
Social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of knowers.
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