New book from Alva Noë. Our lives are structured by organized activities, in the large, in the small. Our lives are one big complex nesting of organized activities at different levels and scales. Talking, walking, eating, perceiving, driving. We are always captured by structures of organization. This is our natural, indeed our biological, condition. It is…
The last, but by no means least, paper from the CSR EM issue. Check out Mirko Farina’s review of Nivedita’s co-edited book Perception, Action, and Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dyamics and two Visual Systems. CognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionPerceptionPsychological ScienceSocial Sciences
Alva Noë’s latest musings. Agency (philosophy)CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExpertExtended MindJames AtlasNervous systemphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindZombie
Noë reviews Plantinga’s latest book. from a naturalistic point of view, we have every reason to doubt that our cognitive faculties are reliable. Therefore we can’t seriously believe naturalism. For to believe it would be to have grounds for doubting the reliability of our own inclinations to believe it. Alvin Plantingaand NaturalismChristopher HitchensExistence of GodReligionWhere…
Brief Alva Noë article.
Alva Noë takes the Opinionator slot. What is striking about neuroaesthetics is not so much the fact that it has failed to produce interesting or surprising results about art, but rather the fact that no one — not the scientists, and not the artists and art historians — seem to have minded, or even noticed. What…
Here’s a new book to be published early next year by Alva Noë entitled Varieties of Presence. If anyone cares to review it for The Journal of Mind and Behavior, an outlet that has featured some of the best essays in the situated cognition genre, drop me a line. (Offer now closed).
Check out this review (scroll down) by Michael Madary of Mark Rowlands’ The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology. One of the latest labels to emerge for anti-classical (or non-Cartesian, or post-cognitivist) cognitive science is “4E.” The four Es here are the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended approaches to cognition. Since there are…
Here is an interview with Alva in the German language Frankfurter Rundschau. Here is a video interview with Alva setting out in very general terms his research interest. Click here for a Google translation.
At last Colin Klein’s terrific critical notice of Rob Rupert’s fine-grained critique Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind is now available in the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior.
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