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The neurophilosophical case for an evolutionary turn in neuroeconomics
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath’s latest bringing together luminaries as diverse as Hayek, Churchland, Sperber, Clark, Edelman, Tooby and Cosmides &c. Carsten Herrmann-PillathEmbodied cognitive scienceEvolutionary PsychologyExternalismFriedrich HayekneuroeconomicsPatricia Churchlandphilosophical psychologythe sensory order
Reissue of SHAFT
Released today. Stax store. acid funkisaac hayesmusicpsychedelic funkshaftStax
The “Dhimmi” Jew vs. the “Maccabean” Jew
The redoubtable, incisive and subtle Douglas Murray is the only current public intellectual I’ve come across to have read Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite. While Murray points to Rezzori’s central psychological insight that anti-Semitism is a form of prestige (i.e. snobbery), I want to add a further complicating wrinkle to the discussion. That is,…
Smith on Smith
Here is the opening paragraph to Vernon’s Foreward to Propriety and Prosperity. I would urge anyone interested in situated cognition to read his superb Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms, amazingly an unknown work within situated circles, proponent or critic. Also worth a read is Vernon’s memoir. This book is a welcome addition to the resurgent scholarly…
The postmodern conservatism of Peter Lawler
Matt McManus’ latest on this topic with a special shout-out to Peter. Stay tuned for Matt’s forthcoming book which goes into this topic in great detail. Liberalismmatt McManuspeter lawlerPolitical philosophypost modernism
Jesse Norman on Weber’s ‘Politics as a Vocation’
In History Today. capitalismJesse Normanmax weberSociology
Perception As Controlled Hallucination: Predictive Processing and the Nature of Conscious Experience
A Conversation with Andy Clark (video, audio and transcript). AIAndy ClarkCognitive scienceConsciousness StudiesDaniel DennettExtended MindPerceptionphilosophical psychologypredictive processing
Labour of Lust
Part two of Nick Lowe’s power pop phase dropped 40 years ago. musicnick lowepower poprock ‘n rollrockpile
Group Minds and Natural Kinds
A close-grained discussion of this vexed issue by the very excellent Rob Rupert. distributed cognitionEmbodied cognitiongroup mindsnatural kindsRob Rupertsocial epistemologysocial ontology
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